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Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?

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320 points willm | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 17:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dekhn ◴[02 Sep 25 17:55 UTC] No.45106670[source]▶
It added intrusive- codebase-wide- functionality that more or less could have been done with other (thread-based) approaches.

AWSCLI was broken for over a year- we had to do a ton of work to deal with the various packaging issues.

Don't break userspace.

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AtlasBarfed ◴[02 Sep 25 21:21 UTC] No.45109218[source]▶
Why was awscli written in python? Bad decision to begin with.

Hey! We have a product that we clearly want to release worldwide. Let's build it on something that doesn't have Unicode. Or any real threading. And is slow as hell.

You picked a platform that was going to have to break user space.

At least it wasn't JavaScript

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1. mdaniel ◴[03 Sep 25 02:52 UTC] No.45111808[source]▶
I guess at least they're consistent (or maybe herd mentality) since both azure-cli and gcloud are both in python, too