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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by rmahrt on Sunday July 09, 2023 @05:38AM (#36653039)
Relying on a published guarantee of CPython is not technical debt!

What will happen is that extensions that don't work with the new behavior will be assimilated by the proponents. Support for the new behavior will be hacked in, probably with many mistakes.

The bad results will then be marketed as progress.

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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by fragmede on Sunday July 09, 2023 @05:51AM (#36653091)
it is now! just like that bill you didn't know you owed until it came in the mail, technical debt builds up regardless of when you know when it's owed.

keeping a gil when entering and exiting c extensions seems like an obvious steppingstone.

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