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by RHSeeger 3854 days ago
> - perl6 is the first mainstream(ish) dynamic language to not suffer from a GIL of some kind. You can do real concurrency and parallelism in perl6.

Admittedly, not everyone would define it as mainstream... but Tcl doesn't have a GIL and has had threading for a good, long time.