written on July 26, 2025 Last November I wrote a post about how the programming interface of threads beats the one of async/await. In May, Mark Shannon brought up the idea of virtual threads for Python on Python’s discussion board and also referred back to that article that I wrote. At EuroPython we had a chat about that topic and that reminded me that I just never came around to writing part two of that article. How We Got Here The first thing to consider is that async/await did actually prod...