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Nathaniel J. Smith - Trio: Async concurrency for mere mortals - PyCon 2018

PyCon 2018 · talk · Watch on YouTube

Python, Ruby & scripting languagesSoftware architecture & design

What it is

Nathaniel J. Smith's PyCon 2018 talk introducing Trio, a Python concurrency library designed around usability and structured concurrency. He live-codes a problem and analyzes pitfalls in other async libraries.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a clear introduction to structured concurrency and as an explanation of subtle asyncio bugs that Trio avoids.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “one of the best explanations I've seen about what subtle bugs are easy to make with asyncio”

    Explains subtle asyncio bugs and how trio addresses them

    acidbaseextract, 2021-10 · Strong recommendation · in “A viable solution for Python concurrency”

  2. “A useful introduction to the ideas is in Nathaniel's PyCon 2018 talk on trio”

    Useful introduction with live-coded concurrency problem

    kzuberi, 2023-02 · Recommendation · in “Structured Concurrency Definition”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: trio, structured concurrency, asyncio, python, pycon

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