The first year of free-threaded Python

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.

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.

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

This stinks of BS

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.