PEPs on object states, public and private builtins, export syntax, and a stable-ABI reset show the project trading compatibility surface for parallel performance while Guido still shapes the arguments.
By segfaultMark Shannon argues CPython still lacks written guarantees on atomicity and threading for GIL and free-threaded builds as the global lock is phased out.
By segfaultMark Shannon’s plan would require explicit sharing of objects across threads, building on free-threading work with runtime checks and freezing.
By rvalueGreg Kroah-Hartman wants write support dropped rather than more locking after concurrent writers could free the same string twice.
By kexec