pydis

Fair point, here is a pull request that addresses my criticism: https://github.com/boramalper/pydis/pull/15

The problem is how the author frames it in the README: "an experiment to disprove some of the falsehoods about performance and optimisation regarding software and interpreted languages in particular", "unfortunately many programmers [...] spend countless hours by making life harder for themselves in the name of marginal performance gains, often trading many other conveniences (such as type safety)". Between the heavy use of C libraries and correctness issues (https://github.com/boramalper/pydis/issues/12), I don't see how this project proves that Python is faster or safer than other languages. That being said, the speed with which it was developed can certainly be seen as Python's strong point.

Pydis code is awesome: https://github.com/boramalper/pydis/blob/0a51b6e31475dab083d... I've been a Python dev for roughly a decade and had no idea about asyncio.Protocol, asyncio.transports.Transport, or that asyncio's event loops could be used to create a TCP listening server. I always thought of asyncio as synonymous with async def and websockets. But perhaps the websockets should have clued me in that it's an actual server protocol. Between this and "On the beauty of Python's ExitStack" (https://www.rath.org/on-the-beauty-of-pythons-exitstack.html) it's been a good week. I was hoping that it implemented a Redis protocol reader, but pydis uses hiredis.Reader(). I wonder if there's a pure python version... ./benchmark.sh produced some warnings related to a lack of CONFIG GET, so I added a basic one just now: https://github.com/boramalpe