Many other documents in this repository are dedicated to defining what Twisted is. Here, I will attempt to explain not
what Twisted is, but what it should be, once I’ve met my goals with it.
First, Twisted should be fun. It began as a game, it is being used commercially in games, and it will be, I hope, an
interactive and entertaining experience for the end-user.
Twisted is a platform for developing internet applications. While python, by itself, is a very powerful language,
there are many facilities it lacks which other languages have spent great attention to adding. It can do this now;
Twisted is a good (if somewhat idiosyncratic) pure-python framework or library, depending on how you treat it, and it
continues to improve.
As a platform, Twisted should be focused on integration. Ideally, all functionality will be accessible through
all protocols. Failing that, all functionality should be configurable through at least one protocol, with a seamless
and consistent user-interface. The next phase of development will be focusing strongly on a configuration system
which will unify many disparate pieces of the current infrastructure, and allow them to be tacked together by a nonprogrammer.
