The Incredible Growth of Python (stackoverflow.blog)

[Rustom Mody]

On Monday, September 11, 2017 at 12:51:59 PM UTC+5:30, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
> > Async functions in
> > JS are an alternative to callback hell; most people consider async
> > functions in Python to be an alternative to synchronous functions.
> 
> What do you base that on? Seems to me async is an alternative
> to callback-based frameworks such as Twisted.
> 
> Calling async functions an alternative to sync functions
> doesn't make sense, because if sync functions will do what
> you want, there's no need to use async ones.

The choice usually is:
sync-functions-in-threads with lock-race-hell vs callback-hell