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Let me preface this by saying I have no source to prove what I’m about to say, but Guido van Rossum aimed to create a programming language that feels more like
by 0xFEE1DEAD 2y ago
Let me preface this by saying I have no source to prove what I’m about to say, but Guido van Rossum aimed to create a programming language that feels more like a natural language without being just a toy language.
He envisioned a real programming language that could be used by non-programmers, and for this to work it couldn’t contain the usual footguns.
One could argue that he succeeded, considering how many members of the scientific community, who don’t primarily see themselves as programmers, use Python.
- William_BB 2y agoAll the answers were good, but I think this explained it the best. Thank you
- dawnofdusk 2y agoBut the performance motivations for removing the GIL seem at odds with this. I feel like the subset of Python users who care about the GIL and the subset who are "non-programmers" are entirely disjoint.
- charlieyu1 2y agoI guess I am one of these people and have zero idea on how to write code in parallel programming. Would GIL removal benefit me, given that it seems like it would hurt performance?