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		emrah on Oct 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python stands to lose its GIL, and gain a lot of s... So if you don't like it or want it, don't use it then? Why does it have to be missing altogether for you to be happy?

darthrupert on Oct 18, 2021 [–]

If it's done without causing complications then sure. I'm highly skeptical that it can be, as no other language ever has been able to do that.

Rust got it pretty good, but they designed a significant part of their language so that multithreading could be done well. Python did almost the opposite.

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