You have strong points. I agree with you about Python 3 "not cutting it" in terms of offering some fundamentally new stuff. But I also think there is something

You have strong points. I agree with you about Python 3 "not cutting it" in terms of offering some fundamentally new stuff. But I also think there is something admirable in that. You mention "a good async story" -- that has already been addressed with asyncio. A better multi-processing API has also been addressed in the concurrent.futures module. It's true that "multi-core" is still unsolved in Python, but most practitioners work around this problem by just using process-oriented parallelism instead. Nonetheless, the frequent complaints about multi-core haven't fallen on deaf ears; they will probably come next! It's pretty much the primary focus of the pypy project and recent development work has begun on a Software Transactional Memory implementation that would remove the GIL. GvR at PyCon 2014 said that he thinks pypy is the future of core Python development -- and that at some point in the future, pypy might become the reference implementation rather than CPython. So, to conclude, I agree with your points, but progress is already advancing on many of the fronts you are demanding from the community.