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Re:Ask HN: Whose building on Python NoGIL? by fulafel on Saturday December 21, 2024 @07:21AM (#42479264)
So what would the alternative history have been if CPython was retired after Python 3 came out in 2008, what would we be using now? IronPython or GraalPy?
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Re:Ask HN: Whose building on Python NoGIL? by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday December 21, 2024 @04:45PM (#42482589)
It would have suffered the same fate as Perl 6 and we'd all be on 2.1x.
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Re:Ask HN: Whose building on Python NoGIL? by throwaway81523 on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @02:17AM (#42500232)
PyPy was a thing and it could have been the basis of Python 3. In fact people DID keep using Python 2 long after Python 3 came out, even though Python 3 used CPython. So they may have gone for much bigger wins. Perl 6 was another matter since it changed the Perl language drastically.
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