Basically yes, Python had Twisted for years, it had Diesel, Monocle, Tornado, and some other ones. I am aware of those and as you've read my comment you saw that I used Twisted enough to know its ins and outs (5 years).

> There are also async frameworks that make writing async code the same as synchronous code.

Yes there is inlineCallbacks and I used. Node.js also has async (https://github.com/caolan/async). But you don't address the main problem that I raised -- fragmentation of libraries. Python is great because it comes with batteries, and then you can find even more batteries everywhere, _except_ if you use an async framework like Twisted, which, percolates all the way through you API code. Once your socket.recv() returns a Deferred(), that deferred will bubble up all the way to the user interface. So you now you end up searching or recreating a parallel set of libraries.

> Twisted has a lot of libraries but it has so much going on that many developers find it too complex.

It is too complex with too many libraries for those who want to take it up but it is not complex and doesn't have enough libraries if you are in it already -- every library you use has to be Twisted now. That's the danger of inventing a new framework.

Yes it will be standard, but there is already a practical standard -- eventlet and gevent. This is somethin Node.js doesn't have. I will personally take monkey-patching and the danger that my function will context switch inside while doing IO over using Twisted. I saw a practical benefit from it at least.