Simplicity Debt | Dave Cheney

Fifteen years ago Python’s GIL wasn’t a big issue. Concurrency was something dismissed as probably unnecessary. What people really was needed was a faster interpreter, after all, who had more than one CPU? But, slowly, as the requirement for concurrency increased, the problems with the GIL increased. By the time this decade rolled around, Node.js and Go had arrived on the scene, highlighting the n

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“The question is, how can we pay down the cost in complexity of adding templated types or immutability to Go?”