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> ...with the goal

> ... no. With the goal

I assumed those meant the end user of the language (it is fair to assume the person you responded to meant that). The goal of the language itself was probably to stay trendy - e.g. JS/Golang/Nim/Rust/etc had decent async stories, where python didn't. Python needed async syntax support as the threading and multiprocessing interfaces were clunky compared to others in the space. What they ended up with arguably isn't good.

I'm pretty familiar with those restrictions which is why I expected this thread to be more of "yeah it sucks that its slower" instead of pulling the "coroutines don't technically make anything faster per se" argument which is distracting.




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