Choosing tornado as web application framework?

Question

Python

Such a situation is developing - it looks like you have to take part in a project that the customer intends to do on a tornado. I am not familiar with this framework. Based on information on the network, including on this resource (for 2020, only 3 questions with the tornado tag), one gets the feeling that this is not a very relevant choice for studying in the middle of 2020, there are much more interesting representatives of asynchronous frameworks that attract and at the same time gain popularity. Maybe there are people who work / worked with it and can tell you that the framework has not lost / will lose its relevance in the near future.

Answer 1

Tornado is deprecated, it's a library from the era when Python didn't have asyncio. Now Aiohttp, FastAPI or others, there are many of them.

Answer 2

Chasing relevance is a strange idea. I do not really like Tornado, but this is a time-tested solution, for some tasks it may be a normal choice.

Answer 3

If you look at the history of updates, then 1 microfix was released this year. For the previous year, a new version and 3 updates. For 18 years 1 update and 4 fixes. Given that the framework was created by Facebook for a service that closed 5 years ago, the future of the framework is unclear. If we talk about technologies for processing a large number of requests, then the most popular are frameworks for Node.js and Go.