[tomchristie]

There's a pretty good reason there's a lot of folks building new frameworks for Python in this space right now: async.

Unlike WSGI frameworks we're now able to support WebSockets, lightweight backgrounds tasks, super-high-throughput performance, and all sorts of other goodies, that Flask, Django et al. aren't necessarily able to excel in.

Good news is that it's pretty likely that some of this may eventually feedback into Django, Flask, and others, but in the meantime it's a case of trying to bring the Python async ecosystem up to feature-parity with existing thread-concurrency frameworks as quickly as we possibly can.

[tiangolo]

Thanks for chiming in @tomchristie!