Ick, I'd forgotten how monkeypatchable the core of Python was. If not for that, I'd focus on supporting some kind of pseudo-process where multiple instances of

Ick, I'd forgotten how monkeypatchable the core of Python was. If not for that, I'd focus on supporting some kind of pseudo-process where multiple instances of the Python interpreter could be loaded but they would only share pure-functional libs which, I assume, could be used in a threadsafe fashion... but then you run into the mutability of those libs. Well, the mutability of everything in python. Plus what happens if those libs expose anythign that you could hold a reference to - what happens to refcounting in a multithreaded Python? Honestly, I feel like the world has passed Python by. At this point the cost of its performance limitations don't seem to be worth its payoff. Not that it's a bad language - I like Python. I just don't really feel the need to use it for anything anymore.