import asyncio: Learn Python's AsyncIO #1 - The Async Ecosystem 

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Since the moment he mentioned 'select sys call,' I didn't understand what he was saying. It's specialized knowledge about Linux and networking, which I'm not familiar with. Perhaps there should be a course that introduces async for the majority of learners, without such academic knowledge

Your teaching style is not really good and not intuitive. Going through a series of PEPs and just briefly introducing them, how can viewers understand what you are saying? This is a lecture, not a movie. Viewers need to watch attentively and carefully to understand, unlike a movie where viewers can watch or not, or fast forward to another part, and viewers don't get a headache from watching a movie.

Since the moment he mentioned 'select sys call,' I didn't understand what he was saying. It's specialized knowledge about Linux and networking, which I'm not familiar with. Perhaps there should be a course that introduces async for the majority of learners, without such academic knowledge

thanks a lot for the clarifications!

Good question! Python is both a programming language that you see in your text editor, as well as a runtime that executes your program. It is impossible to think about Python just looking at the source code without thinking how it behaves - or can behave - at runtime. An important feature of Python is that nothing is private, everything is mutable and introspectable. Plenty of features of Python rely on this design. This puts some constraints on how fast native Python can run, for example due to very widespread usage of dictionaries, duck typing, and so on. When we're saying that the GIL is what makes Python fast, we mean that without the GIL the particular design that CPython is an implementation of, would be less efficient without a single global interpreter lock. Other programming languages have different sets of guarantees and features, sometimes very specifically chosen to allow better native performance. While Swift isn't particularly interesting in this space, we at EdgeDB are quite excited about Rust for systems programming. Our database server already includes Rust code for some performance-critical bits (which in the old times would typically be handled by writing a C extension).

Jupyter problem?

We're uploading it right now. We'll be targeting to release at least one new episode per week.

actually, just watched this first episode and am really pleased with the content. I'm going to watch the rest tomorrow.

Awww, that's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me ♥️

Hi Langa, Since the moment he mentioned 'select sys call,' I didn't understand what he was saying. It's specialized knowledge about Linux and networking, which I'm not familiar with. Perhaps there should be a course that introduces async for the majority of learners, without such academic knowledge @@llanga

Your teaching style is not really good and not intuitive. Going through a series of PEPs and just briefly introducing them, how can viewers understand what you are saying? This is a lecture, not a movie. Viewers need to watch attentively and carefully to understand, unlike a movie where viewers can watch or not, or fast forward to another part, and viewers don't get a headache from watching a movie. @@llanga