On: Real-Time Django: Get Started with Django Channels

[hamiltonkibbe]

Can we come up with a new word for this? Real-Time has a definition w/r/t computing, and it's certainly not "Python code, running in a C runtime, on top of a non-realtime OS."

[LyndsySimon → hamiltonkibbe]

I'd refer to it as just "asynchronous". I'm not sure why they felt the need to redefine.

[zokier → LyndsySimon]

AJAX was already async (that's where the first A comes from..), so it makes sense to have new name for new generation

[zokier → hamiltonkibbe]

That ship sailed almost 10 years ago, the complaints now are getting bit tired. Words occasionally take on new meanings, live with it.

[hamiltonkibbe → zokier]

Yes, but the ship was guaranteed to sail no later than 8 years ago. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for the blog post to load.