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I think switching the version to 4 is the most viable path. Make the last GILed python 3 an LTS release that interested parties can hold on to, eg. Ubuntu can k

I think switching the version to 4 is the most viable path. Make the last GILed python 3 an LTS release that interested parties can hold on to, eg. Ubuntu can keep python 3 as a default for a long time. One can always use conda to run multiple versions simultaneously.

IshKebab 5y ago
You mean Python 4? That would be absolutely insane. Have you already forgotten the 2/3 transition? They aren't making that mistake again.
- berkut 5y ago
  Maybe not, but as someone in the VFX/CG industry where Python 3 is only just being moved to this year (still on 2.7 mostly) because we didn't really need unicode, getting rid of the GIL in 3.0 would have very likely made us jump to Python 3 almost instantly years ago. Different people want different things I guess...
- jas0so 5y ago
  Just because the version increments doesnt mean it'll be as painful a transition.
- nicolaslem 5y ago
  And yet the popularity of Python exploded during the 2 to 3 transition. As someone who has migrated a few codebases from 2 to 3, I will gladly do it again to 4 if that brings a GILless Python.
  - boublepop 5y ago
    Exactly. The 10% of python programmers who used and loved python 2, keep talking about the community “almost dying” at a time when 90% of it joined with a clear preference for python 3. It’s ridicules.