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I am wondering why python community focus seems to be shifting away from gevent and towards the asyncio framework.

Am I the only one who finds the programming style of using async/await inferior to that of gevent?

You're not the only one. I too am fond of the implicit context switching that we can have with gevent.

"Explicit is better than implicit", you know.

Couple of reasons: it's new, it's shiny, it holds the promise of doing super awesome stuff, it's really hard to get right and if you've explored the language enough, it's one more facet to explore.

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