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> They use unmaintained C extensions that won't be updated.

Well, that's on them.

> They're concerned about fragmenting the ecosystem into GIL and No GIL.

Same way we have fragmentated ecosystem into ASYNC vs SYNC now? /s

> They think that it will make single-threaded Python programs slower.

Python is already horribly slow. A little bit slower single thread programs shouldn't be a problem. But the inability to run multi-threaded programs effectively in this day and age is very much a problem.



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