> On Aug 9, 2014, at 3:50 AM, Hynek Schlawack <h...@ox.cx> wrote: > > On 8 Aug 2014, at 23:59, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > >> I've participated in this discussion several times: >> >> Hypothetical Amalgam of Median Interlocutors Speaking Here: "I'm using Tulip >> because I really like its style of coroutines." >> Glyph: "That's interesting. Did you know that Twisted has an equivalent >> style of coroutines, called inlineCallbacks, that's been around for years?" >> HAMISH: "I saw that, and I asked about that a while ago and I heard it was >> bad. It haven't heard that Tulip has the same problems, though." >> Glyph: "Really? What problems does inlineCallbacks have that Tulip's >> coroutines don't?" >> HAMISH: "When I asked about it everybody told me I have to use Deferreds >> instead, but Deferreds are really confusing and they make your code look all >> gross, so I didn't want to do that. With Tulip I don't have to!" >> Glyph: <facepalm> > > That btw is something I’m trying to fight on IRC whenever I can for months > now. @inlineCallbacks may be worse than pure Deferreds in some ways, but > they are amazing to get people to give Twisted a chance and start > appreciating it (most people still have no clue what Twisted actually can do > for them; hence the “who needs Twisted when we have tulip!?” questions). And > FWIW I have a mid-sized Twisted application running on top of > @inlineCallbacks for years now and it works just fine. > > People finally stopped knee-jerking at async/event-based programming and > we’re keeping them out by being perfectionist smart-asses. Next time someone > asks about them, keep your “ugh inlineCallbacks” to yourself; a future > contributor may come out of it. >
+1 I stopped trying to use @inlineCallbacks because I was told it was bad (without much explanation why) anytime I posted a code snippet and asked for help with something that was using it. End result was that I didn’t really want to write much Twisted code because I don’t like the style of code where you’re working with pure Deferreds. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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