Re:SuPPort: Evented Python servers
by kapilvt on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @07:59PM
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stack looks solid, coroutine, stats, and utilities, i'm interested in giving it a spin. some interesting libraries in there i haven't seen before. even then its hard to reconcile statements like native gevent (sans monkey) with libraries like flask (thread locals) or even the std lib. one of the main benefits of gevent vs twisted or other async libs is the ability to actual reuse the python ecosystem via a handful of monkey patched modules, a position which this stack effectively disavows.
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gevent has lots of benefits outside monkeypatching! That said, historically we mostly chose gevent as it seemed like the better interface to greenlet, which we really liked. For the most part, we were (and in many cases still are) trying to cater to a Python community of beginners. Greenlet-based approaches seemed easier to explain than other options, and sure enough we rarely hear complaints about development complexity, etc.