it is absolutely wild to me that free-threaded python is stable, production-w...

it is absolutely wild to me that free-threaded python is stable, production-worthy

they straight-up dropped the GIL. Python used to be not actually multi-threaded, now it is

No mayhem. Just threads.

astral.sh/blog/python-...

i still remember when the PR first dropped

there was no PEP, guy just showed you could delete the GIL without disaster. But even wilder was he included a crap ton of other unrelated optimizations that were huge on their own

🤯