> To keep it simple, try thinking like this (and yes, Yury, apologies - this is now a side discussion, and not about this pep):  everything in CPython is async, and if you don't want async, you don't need to know about, you run a single async task and don't need to know more...
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> Can we get there?
> That would be cool...


So, essentially, something similar to Golang?  I don’t know if that’s possible.  It would require a complete CPython IO layer rewrite, integrating an event loop directly into the core, etc.  The closest thing to that is gevent — no async/await and all IO is non-blocking, but it has its own warts.

Yury