Python In 2024: Faster, More Powerful, And More Popular Than Ever
InfoWorld, Wednesday, December 25th, 2024
It's been a leap-ahead year for Python-bringing on more speed, less cruft, and a large and growing user base.
Over the course of 2024, Python has proven again and again why it's one of the most popular, useful, and promising programming languages out there. The latest version of the language pushes the envelope further for speed and power, sheds many of Python's most decrepit elements, and broadens its appeal with developers worldwide. Here's a look back at the year in Python.
Python 3.13 introduced the 'no-GIL' build (and lots more)
In the biggest news of the year, the core Python development team took a major step toward overcoming one of Python's longstanding drawbacks: the Global Interpreter Lock or 'GIL,' a mechanism for managing interpreter state. The GIL prevents data corruption across threads in Python programs, but it comes at the cost of making threads nearly useless for CPU-bound work.