{"slug": "the-gil-isnt-so-bad-after-all", "title": "The GIL isn’t so Bad After All", "summary": "A new article argues that Python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) is not as problematic as commonly believed, especially given the historical context of single-core computers in 1992 when threading was emerging.", "body_md": "It’s the year 1992. Every computer runs with a single core. A new programming paradigm called threading is gaining traction. Guido Van…\nContinue reading on Towards AI »", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-gil-isnt-so-bad-after-all", "canonical_source": "https://pub.towardsai.net/the-gil-isnt-so-bad-after-all-baa3ad976e20?source=rss----98111c9905da---4", "published_at": "2026-06-21 14:31:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-21 15:09:27.912271+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Guido Van Rossum", "Python"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-gil-isnt-so-bad-after-all", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-gil-isnt-so-bad-after-all.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-gil-isnt-so-bad-after-all.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-gil-isnt-so-bad-after-all.jsonld"}}