Fire and Forget at Textual

If you read my Fire and Forget (or Never) about Python and asynchronous programming, you could think it’s a super odd edge case. But a reader/listener, Richard, pointed me at Will McGugan’s article The Heisenbug lurking in your async code. This is basically the same article, but in Will-style. Will does say “This behavior is well documented, as you can see from this excerpt.” True, but the documentation got this emphasis and warning in Python 3.12 whereas the feature create_task was added in ...