By making Rust opt-in, the Python builders hope to enjoy Rust bennies without the backlash that roiled the Linux kernel ...

The Python community is chewing over a new idea: allowing the C-based reference implementation, CPython, to incorporate Rust. It's only at the "pre-PEP" stage, but it's already sparked lively debate.… ...

Emma Smith and Kirill Podoprigora, two of Python's core developers, have opened a discussion about including Rust code in CPython, the reference implementation of the Python programming language.

The Python global interpreter lock (GIL) has long been a barrier to increasing the performance of programs by using multiple threads—the GIL serializes access to the interpreter's virtual machine such ...