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		tptacek on June 28, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: So You Want Your Code to Be Asynchonous? A Twisted... What a strange introduction to Twisted. Ruby's equivalent is EventMachine. I like it better than Twisted, but mostly because Ruby's block syntax dovetails really nicely with callback-driven state machines. Both Twisted and EventMachine are screaming fast.

mleonhard on June 29, 2008 [–]

... and ugly to anyone who's worked with Erlang.

tptacek on June 29, 2008 | [–]

Ah, Erlang. The Ron Paul of programming languages.

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