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The first year of free-threaded Python

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258 points rbanffy | 8 comments | 16 May 25 09:42 UTC | HN request time: 1.065s | source | bottom
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pjmlp ◴[16 May 25 12:27 UTC] No.44004601[source]▶
On the other news, Microsoft dumped the whole faster Python team, apparently the 2025 earnings weren't enough to keep the team around.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mdboom_its-been-a-tough-coupl...

Lets see whatever performance improvements still land on CPython, unless other company sponsors the work.

I guess Facebook (no need to correct me on the name) is still sponsoring part of it.

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1. bgwalter ◴[16 May 25 12:52 UTC] No.44004858[source]▶
They were quite a bit behind the schedule that was promised five years ago.

Additionally, at this stage the severe political and governance problems cannot have escaped Microsoft. I imagine that no competent Microsoft employee wants to give his expertise to CPython, only later to suffer group defamation from a couple of elected mediocre people.

CPython is an organization that overpromises, allocates jobs to the obedient and faithful while weeding out competent dissenters.

It wasn't always like that. The issues are entirely self-inflicted.

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2. biorach ◴[16 May 25 13:18 UTC] No.44005149[source]▶
> CPython is an organization that overpromises, allocates jobs to the obedient and faithful while weeding out competent dissenters.

This stinks of BS

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3. wisty ◴[16 May 25 13:45 UTC] No.44005483[source]▶
It sounds like an oblique reference to that time they temporarily suspended one of the of the most valuable members of the community, apparently for having the audacity to suggest that their powers to suspend members of the community seemed a little arbitrary and open to abuse.
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4. biorach ◴[16 May 25 13:50 UTC] No.44005528{3}[source]▶
Well they could just say that instead of wasting people's time with oblique references
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5. robertlagrant ◴[16 May 25 14:07 UTC] No.44005719{4}[source]▶
Saying "This stinks of BS" is going to mean you have little standing to criticise other people for wasting time.
6. make3 ◴[16 May 25 20:31 UTC] No.44009550[source]▶
Microsoft also fired a whole lot of other open source people unrelated to Python in this current layoff
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7. pjmlp ◴[16 May 25 20:59 UTC] No.44009786[source]▶
Notably MAUI, ASP.NET, Typescript and AI frameworks.
8. kragen ◴[17 May 25 03:08 UTC] No.44011750{3}[source]▶
Temporarily? Tim Peters got reinstated?