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Christian Himpe Sep 1, 2023

#Scheme / #Schemer / #SchemeLang is still in IEEE's Top Programming Languages 2023 survey: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-top-programming-languages-2023

The Top Programming Languages 2023

Python and SQL are on top, but old languages shouldn’t be forgotten

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Travis F W Sep 1, 2023

@gramian has #Python done anything about that #GIL yet? (Global interpreter lock)

Also, in the #Lisp advocate department, #Clojure deserves mention, somewhere in the middle of the chart.

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@travisfw @gramian Nearly there. GIL will likely go away in the release next year. There are lots of PEPs in discussion and work right now. This one, for example:

https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/

There release coming in a few months will have per interpreter GIL:
https://docs.python.org/3.12/whatsnew/3.12.html#whatsnew312-pep684

PEP 703 – Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython | peps.python.org

CPython’s global interpreter lock (“GIL”) prevents multiple threads from executing Python code at the same time. The GIL is an obstacle to using multi-core CPUs from Python efficiently. This PEP proposes adding a build configuration (--disable-gil) to...

Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)