2 HN users recommended this talk2 months2020–2023score 2.5
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
Recommended as a clear introduction to structured concurrency and as an explanation of subtle asyncio bugs that Trio avoids.
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.
“one of the best explanations I've seen about what subtle bugs are easy to make with asyncio” (HN, 2021)
The video (or blog post) below is one of the best explanations I've seen about what subtle bugs are easy to make with asyncio, why it's easy to make them, and how the trio library addresses them. But yes, consider alternatives before you pick asyncio as your approach! Talk: [this video] Blog post: [link]
Explains subtle asyncio bugs and how trio addresses them
A useful introduction to the ideas is in Nathaniel's PyCon 2018 talk on trio [1], where he live-codes a solution to a concurrency-spaghetti problem. [1] [this video]
Useful introduction with live-coded concurrency problem
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