The removal of Python's GIL is a poison pill that will kill the language and send users fleeing to higher ground and to the Mojo language. So long as Mojo presents a fast, efficient and professionally ...

Python recently introduced PEP 703, a proposal to make the GIL optional in future Python releases. However, it is unclear if that could be implemented without severely damaging Python’s ...

The Python world has been fractured a few times before. The infamous transition from version 2 to version 3 still affects people today, and there could be a new schism in the future. [Sam Gross] pr… ...

A new project to change the CPython runtime to boost multithreaded performance has drawn the attention of Python’s core development team.

No problem Despite all this, the quest for a GIL-less Python, compatible with existing applications, continues. Other implementations of Python have done away with the GIL entirely, but at a cost.

Python 3.13: Better interactive shell and finally multithreading without GIL The new Python release features an interactive command line and allows the global interpreter lock to be deactivated.