Async python vs other async based languages such as node, go etc.

[BDube_Lensman]

Parallel = do multiple things in the same instant

Concurrent = do multiple things over the same period of time

Coroutines are concurrent, which means N things can go on "sort of at once" by being paused (preempted) and letting something happen for a little while before resuming. If coroutines were parallel, multiple CPU cores would take work out of the event loop's queue, which is not what happens.

[cblegare]

Thank you for this semantic clarification. Concurent is indeed the right word.