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by deaddodo 2605 days ago
> Plus, if you use a language like Go or Rust then you avoid Python's GIL

No, but then you run into Go's GC and green threads. File systems fit squarely in the realms of "systems programming" (old definition [1], not new). Languages like Ada, Pascal, C/C++, Rust and D (without GC).

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_programming_language