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I recently bought what I thought was a car, only to find it is a tech-ridden abomination.
I want a vehicle that is reliable. I want a vehicle that is simple. I do not want a rolling AI/touchscreen.
Even just from a security standpoint I want minimal software in my car.
Honestly, I have been wondering for several years now who is going to fill all these apartments. The scale of increase is really that big.
Maybe the answer is… no one?
GUI toolkits (like Textual) however are a really good use case for Asyncio. Human interaction with a program is inherently asynchronous, using async/await so that you can more cleanly specify your control flow is so much better than complicated callbacks. Using async/await in front end JS code for example is a delight.
Where I'm particularly unconvinced of their use is in server side view and api end point processing. The majority of the time you have maybe a couple of IO opps that depend on each other. There is often little than can be parallelised (within a request) and so there are few performance gains to be a made. Traditional synchronous imperative code run with a multithreaded server is proven, scalable and much easier to debug.
There are always places where it's useful though, things such as long running requests (websockets, long polling), or those very rare occurrences where you do have many easily parallelizable IO opps within one short request.
Why is this so common? Do people seriously not read a language/library documentation? That's the absolute first thing I do when evaluating a technology.
One of my favorite experiences from that era: We were meeting with a few ESRI reps for some integration stuff. The lead hot-shot was on his phone playing around during the meeting. He was basically on autopilot. The other two folks were working with GeoJSON response convertors. I said, "I built one of those with TopoJSON". One guy said, "I've never heard of it". I showed them how it was much more efficient and used splines instead of points. The lead dropped his phone and said, "I need you to tell me MORE about that". I showed them the service. They invited me to lunch, I politely declined and said, "today's my last day so I have a ton of things to wrap up". I do miss that realm sometimes.