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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL removal is ac... 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.

Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL removal is ac... on Sunday July 09, 2023 @05:28AM (#36653000)
Well, enjoy the 2020s style machine learning Python, where applications are already full of threading bugs even before this PEP.