The GIL is encoded into practically every C API of the interpreter. It's not going away in CPython, and at the very least any Python implementation supporting C

The GIL is encoded into practically every C API of the interpreter. It's not going away in CPython, and at the very least any Python implementation supporting CPython extensions will have a global lock for calls into extensions. And even if (there were patches for removing the GIL already around in the 90s): All of the approaches and patches shown so far significantly degraded single-threaded performance, which matters to way more applications than the GIL, which typically is not a significant limit to using multiple cores/processors. "Teh GIL" is a very, very overblown issue, and is -- I don't want to be condescending here, but well -- usually brought up by people that have little experience writing software that makes effective use of multiple-many cores.