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Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?


A deep-dive into the challenges and misconceptions surrounding async programming in Python

Whilst everyone will be distracted by the shiny, colorful REPL features in 3.14, there are some big announcements nestled in the release notes — both related to concurrency and parallelism Most production Python applications run on Linux, where the implementation is io_uring io_uring has been plagued by security issues so bad that RedHat, Google and others have restricted or removed its availability. C#, the language from which the , has far broader async support in its core I/O libraries because it implements a Task‑based Asynchronous Pattern (TAP), where tasks are dispatched onto a managed thread pool.

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