Comparing Python and ArkScript asynchronous models
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Python has received a lot of attention lately. The 3.13 release, planned for October this year, will begin the huge work of removing the GIL. A prerelease is already out for curious users who want to try a (nearly) GIL-less Python. All this hype made me dig in my own language, ArkScript, as I had a Global VM Lock, too, in the past (added in version 3.0.12, in 2020, removed in 3.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18859576

This past few weeks, Python 3.13 and the possibility to disable the GIL has seen a lot of coverage and that pushed me to dig into my own language, to see how different our approaches are.

So if you’re curious about the rambling of a pldev, that might be for you!