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I would argue that removing the GIL would scare the shit out of developers and slow adoption instead of hasten it. A lot of accidentally thread-safe code would

by k_sze 11y ago

I would argue that removing the GIL would scare the shit out of developers and slow adoption instead of hasten it. A lot of accidentally thread-safe code would suddenly become thread-unsafe.

rdtsc 11y ago
It was just a hypothetical example of the kinds of changes that would have flocked everyone to Python 3.