Yes. I tried to come up with something that would convey in a few words that the GIL was going to be removed for sure this time. But as a Frenchmen, I couldn't

Yes. I tried to come up with something that would convey in a few words that the GIL was going to be removed for sure this time. But as a Frenchmen, I couldn't find better. "GIL will be removed" was the closest, but it's very long, and it sounds like all those times we had the promise it would be, but it never did. So the Prophetic perfect tense is the best compromise: it asserts near certainty, it's short, and worst case scenario the article remove ambiguity. Plus the news popped up this week in HN front page, so a lot of people knew the context.