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by RandyRanderson 1100 days ago
Many projects start out in Python b/c often new libs are python-first. Many of those run into performance issues and eventually determine that Python will never be fast b/c of the GIL.

I think it's very magnanimous of the python team, by not removing the GIL, to give Go, Java and C++ a chance.