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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL removal is ac... on Saturday July 08, 2023 @03:26PM (#36647856)
Not at all. The GIL was explicitly part of the C-API! No one used the guarantees accidentally, including CPython itself.

The GIL was one of the reasons why the C module ecosytem took off.