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[Discuss] Guido van Rossum steps down

Subject: [Discuss] Guido van Rossum steps down
From: kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 21:17:10 -0400
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I think there is turmoil ahead for Python.

In hindsight, they made a mistake to break compatibility in 3.0, yet 
didn't take the opportunity to fix the global interpreter lock that 
keeps Python from doing multithreading very well. Does not bode well.

-kb, the Kent who is learning Rust, a language that does multithreading 
well.

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