The first year of free-threaded Python

I find it peculiar how, in a language so riddled with simple concurrency architectural issues, the approach is to painstankingly fix every library after fixing the runtime, instead of just using some better language. Why does the community insist on such a bad language when literally even fucking Javascript has a saner execution model?

i find it peculiar how tribal people are about languages. python is fantastic. you're not winning anyone over with comments like this. just go write your javascript and be happy, bud.

> instead of just using some better language

Python the language is pretty bad. Python the ecosystem of libraries and tools has no equal, unfortunately.

Switching a language is easy. Switching a billion lines of library less so.

And the tragic part is that many of the top “python libraries” are just Python interfaces to a C library! But if you want to switch to a “better language” that fact isn’t helpful.

I think the opposite. Every language has flaws. What's impressive about Python is their ongoing commitment to work on theirs, even the deepest-rooted. It makes me optimistic that this is a language to stick with for the long run.

I agree about using other languages that have better concurrency support if concurrency is your bottleneck.

But changing the language in a brownfield project is hard. I love Go, and these days I don’t bother with Python if I know the backend needs to scale.

But Python’s ecosystem is huge, and for data work, there’s little alternative to it.

With all that said, JavaScript ain’t got shit on any language. The only good thing about it is Google’s runtime, and that has nothing to do with the language. JS doesn’t have true concurrency and is a mess of a language in general. Python is slow, riddled with concurrency problems, but at least it’s a real language created by a guy who knew what he was doing.

I wonder if we get automatic LLM translation of codebases from language to language soon - this could close the library gap and diminish the language lock in factor.