gevent was created over a decade ago to solve this.

python users only have themselves to blame for ignoring it.

From "Asyncio, twisted, tornado, gevent walk into a bar" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37227567 :

> IIRC the history of the async things in TLA in order: Twisted (callbacks), Eventlet (for Second Life by Linden Labs), tornado, gevent; gunicorn, Python 3.5+ asyncio, [uvicorn,]

Async/await > History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Async/await