Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL removal is accepted

Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by oblio on Saturday July 08, 2023 @10:41AM (#36644872)

This is wrong, that ship sailed 10+ years ago. Python is used for almost everything, better get used to it.

This kind of garbage logic lead to the horrible Ruby/Python/Javascript with C extensions split that makes their ecosystems very brittle, versus Java/C# where it is expected that things are fast enough without C and package management is much easier.

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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by cwalv on Saturday July 08, 2023 @12:40PM (#36646089)

It's true that python is used for "almost everything", but it's only true because it plays nicely with C.

I understand the desire/demand for general purpose tools. The thing is, there are always tradeoffs. Acknowledging the tradeoffs and designing more specialized tools that work well together isn't necessarily garbage logic.

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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by oblio on Saturday July 08, 2023 @03:16PM (#36647755)

Python is no longer specialized.

I mean, it's specialized for:

* data science

* AI/ML

* webdev

* DevOps tools

* an embedded extension language for 100000 programs

...

The sooner core Python devs accept this, the sooner the right thing can be done.

Python is not AWK.

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