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Threads, async/await, Promises, Futures

Oxide and Friends

CHAPTER

What Is Twisted Python?

When I first stumbled into async in 2001, it was in it was in Python. And I briefly looked at the what is this twisted Python? Yes. It's basically a, you know, an event loop framework for for Python and they have integration with GUI toolkits as well. Everybody coming to node in 2009, 2010,. so 2010 was coming from twisted and from event machine in Ruby. They just having tried to build systems in twisted that were that became like absolute monstrosities that they could not reason about. The emergent behavior and production that was just incomprehensible.

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