Python creator, Guido van Rossum, who works at Microsoft today, wants to make Python twice as fast to better compete with C-based languages, which work more tightly with hardware.

Formal plans for a Python that supports true parallelism are finally on the table. Here’s how a GIL-free Python will finally come together.

“Python is a very easy language to learn for non-programmers,” said Peter Wang, president of Continuum Analytics. That’s important because most big-data analysts will probably not be ...