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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
