(The GIL) is there for other scripting languages too (Ruby, Perl, Node.js, to name a few)
I don't know about Node, but I know it's perfectly possible to write "proper" multi threaded programs in Perl (and has always been since the version string started reporting support for threads, which should be a good 15 years ago).
It's not terribly relevant to the article (because you normally don't write multi threaded programs in Python), but then why bring it up?
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I don't know about Node, but I know it's perfectly possible to write "proper" multi threaded programs in Perl (and has always been since the version string started reporting support for threads, which should be a good 15 years ago).
It's not terribly relevant to the article (because you normally don't write multi threaded programs in Python), but then why bring it up?
True, also relevant is that interpreter threads are officially discouraged now. http://perldoc.perl.org/threads.html#WARNING