asyncio vs cothreads

[Robatronic]

It seems to me that asyncio will work on both Windows and *nix.

Is there a compelling reason to use cothreads in Unix-land....?

[AlexanderWells-diamond]

My recent projects have exclusively used asyncio over cothread.

From my understanding the main reason to stick to cothread is if you need to interface with code that already uses it, as trying to mix the two different systems can easily lead to a lot of mysterious, hard-to-debug, issues.

You can also use cothread if you wish to avoid ever having to use async/await in your code.

[Robatronic]

asyncio should work under both Linux and Windows then.....?

[AlexanderWells-diamond]

Yes, asyncio is supported and tested on Windows and Linux as part of the CI, so everything should work fine.

[Araneidae]

Hi @Robatronic , hope you don't mind me moving your recent issues over here into the (newly opened) discussions section!

The distinction between cothread and asyncio is also largely historical. cothread has been around a lot longer than asyncio support in Python.

[Robatronic]

Not at all! Most of my inquiries are "discussion"-oriented. I'll use this more in future. ;)

[thomascobb]

Also, cothread is an "implicit yield" module like gevent (which it also predates), while asyncio is an "explicit yield" module. Searching for "asyncio vs gevent" will give you more details on this topic:
https://piccolo-orm.com/blog/asyncio-vs-gevent/

[Robatronic]

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