[hakstar]

Not only extra packages. They are currently shoehorning extended multiple interpreter support into CPython, which only Django uses. Similarly, the thread support appears to be mainly for the benefit of that famous photo sharing website that uses Django.

CPython is fully commercialized.

[marky1991]

As someone that doesn't work for the photo-sharing website, I love the new multiple interpreter stuff (it does feel a bit redundant now that the gilemtomy is going forward though, but who knows, maybe more cool uses will become apparent with time (and even so, it is making cpython-the-implementation clean up some of its ugly c-isms that it never bothered fixing, so it's a net win imo even if the feature itself ends up being not-useful)) and the gil-removal. As soon as the gil is gone I'm going to be experimenting with some new optimization projects at work, whole new flows that just weren't viable before under multiprocessing now suddenly are. (whether it all works out for us at that point is anyone's guess, but it's now our problem and not the languages', so yay!)

And I'm certainly not unique amongst other pythonistas, this has been a goal for literal decades.