any thoughts on visualizing tasks?

[goldcode]

I'm thinking x-axis:time and y-axis: tasks depicted to see

• task lifetimes.
• task relationships (parent, children)
• 'orphaned' tasks - curio.spawned but not joined on(?)
• cancel tasks and/or sequence of cancelled tasks.

thought it could be useful for

• documentation/explanation/debugging.
• better understanding one's own design.
• differential analysis (concretely working on a device with many hw components(i/o for curio) and each device run cycle may result in a different sequence of tasks being run.)

I have seen the monitor feature and it definitely helps but explaining to lay people (or myself even after 3 months,) feels like fighting with swooping mantas.

Any logging functionality provided?( for post-mortem parsing and graphical display)

[dabeaz]

Hmmm. It's an interesting idea. There's no real logging at the moment, but maybe something could be instrumented for it as an option.

[ghost]

For example, PyCharm does have simple visualisation of asyncio tasks

[dabeaz]

Is the visualization of asyncio tasks something that people find useful in PyCharm? Just wondering if anyone with experience would want to comment on it here.