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by bunderbunder 616 days ago
But they've worked very hard at shielding most users from that complexity. And the end result - making multithreading a truly viable alternative to multiprocessing for typical use cases - will open up many opportunities for Python users to simplify their software designs.

I suppose only time will tell if that effort succeeds. But the intent is promising.

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Do you have any references or examples that describe how this simplification would come about? Would love to learn more about it.
See the motivation section of the PEP for a summary with citations for further reading: https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/