> Those people/use-cases don't care about the GIL.
This is not true. The primary funding and motivation for the GIL removal work comes from the numerical computing community. The PEP (https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/) contains direct quotes from folks working on numpy, scipy, PyTorch, scikit-learn, etc. and also practitioners from places like Meta, DeepMind and so on, describing the practical constraints that the GIL places on many workloads.
Glad to see the team really embrace the nitty-gritty of keeping the open-source community healthy. React Native is a project with a lot of potential that's taken a few high-profile lumps this past year. Being an OSS maintainer can be difficult and thankless sometimes, but it's good to see teams that recommit to open source instead of withdrawing and focusing solely on internal needs.
This is not true. The primary funding and motivation for the GIL removal work comes from the numerical computing community. The PEP (https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/) contains direct quotes from folks working on numpy, scipy, PyTorch, scikit-learn, etc. and also practitioners from places like Meta, DeepMind and so on, describing the practical constraints that the GIL places on many workloads.