published by | James Bennett |
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in blog | James Bennett |
original entry | Understanding async Python for the web |
Recently Django 4.1 was released, and the thing most people seem interested in is the expanded async support. Meanwhile, for the last couple years the Python web ecosystem as a whole has been seeing new frameworks pop up which are fully async, or support going fully async, from the start.
But this raises a lot of questions, like: just what is “async” Python? Why do people care about it so much? And is it really …