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.

Didn't Google lay off their entire Python development team in the last year as well? I wonder if there is some impetus behind both.

This is a story from a few years ago, and they obviously have lots of teams that use python. This team was an internal support for python and tools - which honestly sounds exactly like the kind of thing that would get cut in a pinch (no value judgement).