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Re:Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime by paulddraper on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @03:41PM (#15502251)
Right. And Ruby also has a GIL.

Node.JS, Python, and Ruby are in C/C++ so you can do multithreading in all three, if you are willing to write native modules.

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Re:Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime by cookiecaper on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @03:55PM (#15502379)
Yes. Python gets all the heat for the GIL, but most similar languages have something with more or less the same effect.
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Re:Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime by cjalmeida on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:59PM (#15504017)
If you're careful you can release the GIL when writing Cython code.

Better than C/C++ sometimes.

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