More than that, believe it or not, but synchronicity and blocking code is considered a feature: it&#x27;s simple and straighforward.<p>Most code doesn&#x27;t need to be non blocking. We only hear so much about non blocking because the Web is the big thing and Web programming benefits from it.<p>But there are hundreds of other fields in programming where IO is not the main issue, and hence don&#x27;t need the additional complexity of being async.<p>Granted, asyncio does a good job at making async easier, but imperative code will always be easier to use, learn and teach. These qualities are very important, and made Python famous : easy to grow with, and yet powerful.<p>So the stdlib will remain as-is, the useful, easy and beautiful thing it has been.<p>We may see additions made to it so you can ALSO, when needed, do more stuff async. But really, I think we will see more and more external lib just doing that, so for when you DO need async, you will just pip install.<p>Things I do hope will have an additional async API though:<p><pre><code>    - urllib;
    - sqlite3;
    - subprocess.</code></pre>