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0 pointstimothycrosley6y ago0 comments

> I think a successful modern language has to have the potential for efficient concurrency baked in

I agree with this!

> I don't think there is any sort of long-term future in anything "Python".

I disagree with this :)

I think Python has efficient IO concurrency built-in already with async, and I feel it is likely that it finds a way to work out CPU bound concurrency long-term, as projects like sub-shells with channel communication demonstrate.

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nine_k6y ago

Efficient CPU concurrency needs either fine-grained locking (and removal of GIL), or data immutability.

Both seem rather hard to implement.

I predict that for CPU-intensive tasks, you'll keep using extensions in native code (like numpy or pytorch), or keep passing serialized objects through queues in multiprocessing setups.