Reasons for Python async/await

Re:Reasons for Python async/await by kyberias on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @03:35PM (#9578674)

It would also make it the first programming language that starts with the letter P and ends with letter N to have those concepts.

Seriously, why does it matter? Is Python 3 really a "scripting language"? I don't think so. It's fairly close to, for example, C#, that has had these particular concepts for a while now. As have many other languages. Again, I don't think it matters that much who was "first".

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Re:Reasons for Python async/await by avolcano on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @03:41PM (#9578718)

I don't think it matters who's first either; I'm just excited that Python's one of the first languages to implement these concepts beyond C#. Only used the term "scripting language" as a way to say "lighter-weight."

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Re:Reasons for Python async/await by kbar13 on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @03:46PM (#9578761)

to be fair python3 is a pretty large distribution (by filesize and features), and it requires having the python interpreter to run code.

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Re:Reasons for Python async/await by Rapzid on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @05:01PM (#9579277)

And a minimal working mono distro is pretty small.

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Re:Reasons for Python async/await by balls187 on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @03:50PM (#9578801)

I don' think you're making your point effectively.

"It's exciting that Python is embracing these features."

That's really what you're trying to hit home.

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