Does Python Need Virtual Threads? (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

Short answer: no.

<https://discuss.python.org/t/add-virtual-threads-to-python/91403>

Firstly, anybody appealing to Java as an example of how to design a
programming language should immediately be sending your bullshit detector
into the yellow zone.

Secondly, the link to a critique of JavaScript that dates from 2015, from
before the language acquired its async/await constructs, should be another
warning sign.

Looking at that Java spec, a “virtual thread” is just another name for
“stackful coroutine”. Because that’s what you get when you take away
implicit thread preemption and substitute explicit preemption instead.

The continuation concept is useful in its own right. Why not concentrate
on implementing that as a new primitive instead?