It seems like Zope has done a dance with Twisted but still
hasn't asked it out on a date. - Paul Everitt
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Twisted is amazingly flexible and Pythonic, but that darn
asynchronous event loop makes thread-happy people run in terror.
 - Mike Orr, April 2004
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With Twisted, you don't need threads. You don't want threads. Threads 
are actually harmful: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/11/18/22112/860
 - Jonathan Lange, August 2004
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Forget everything you ever learned about wxPython/Twisted integration.
It is no longer relevant. Forget that any of the ugly wxPython+Twisted
Python Cookbook entries, lame wiki examples, twisted.internet.wxreactor,
etc. even exist. - Bob Ippolito, April 2005
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The poster sounds new to Twisted, which means that they have at least 2
years worth of regular asynchronous programming ahead of them before they
can make effective and judicious use of shortcuts like deferredGenerator.
 - Glyph Lefkowitz, October 2005
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def postOptions(self):
    if self['fast'] and self['good'] and self['cheap']:
        raise UsageError, "can't have it all, brother"
 - Twisted Matrix docs, 2005
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...we're trying to leverage this technology shift to make a way for
hackers to get rich writing open source software, without going through
the process of starting a startup. - Glyph Lefkowitz, November 2005
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Zope3 feels like a wise granddad with vigour, Django as a bubblegum-
chewing teenager with lots of energy and TurboGears as something in
between. (If Twisted was to get an analogy it'd be Einstein or
someone like that.) - Peter Bengtsson, February 2006
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There are maybe 20 people in the world who could make Twisted
do sync/async mapping *really* correctly, and all of them
understand the problem too well to bother to try.
 - Glyph Lefkowitz, February 2006
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Most people come to Twisted *precisely because* they want asynchronous 
execution. It's a hard problem, and any reasonably intelligent programmer
quickly discovers that using Twisted is infinitely easier than trying to
cobble together a custom solution. - Darran Edmundson, January 2008
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I've used inlineCallbacks to quickly convert someone else's blocking
Python code to async Twisted code, with very little change to the code's
structural flow. The last time I did this, without inlineCallbacks, was
painful, buggy and slow. Anything that helps me unblock code with Twisted
is good. - Justin Warren, January 2008
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If Twisted Matrix was implemented in Ruby it would be advertised
as the second coming of Christ. - Antonio Cangiano, March 2008
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C.A.: I'm pleased to see Twisted is still one of the few Open Source
      projects out there which still has a genuine sense of humour -
      and delivers staggeringly high quality code in spite of it.
S.H.: Not in spite of it, because of it. A sense of humor is essential
      in retaining perspective as one continually fails to communicate
      one's meaning to the stupid machine.
 - Colin Alston, Steve Holden, March 2008
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I get just as frustrated as the next guy when I need something fixed
RFN, but that's the price you pay in exchange for a huge library of
high-quality code. For every time I've run into an issue with Twisted
that the core devs were too busy to fix, there's 50 other times when
Twisted has saved my ass. - Phil Christensen, March 2008