Krishna Sankar writes:
project. Nothing like it's impossible, stupid, or YAGNI. But Guido, and other senior developers, are saying they're not going to devote their resources to it as things currently stand (and one of those resources the attention of the folks who review PEPs).
<KS> I am not sure that is true. I think if we have a well thought out PEP that addresses parallelism,
... and provides a plausible proof-of-concept implementation [Guido said that to you explicitly] ...
it would be looked into by the folks.
True. But AIUI without the implementation, it won't become a PEP. And at present you don't have a plausible implementation with the GIL. Now, it looks like Adam has a plausible implementation of removing the GIL. If that holds up under at least some common use-cases, I think you'll see enthusiasm from some of the top developers, and acceptance from most. But I really think that has to come first.