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Python in 2024: Faster, More Powerful, and More Popular Than Ever

"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," writes InfoWorld: The latest version of the language pushes the envelope further for speed and power, sheds many of Python's most decrepit elements, ...

Over the years, various attempts to remove the GIL ended in tears, as they made single-threaded Python programs drastically slower. The Python team wants to alleviate as much of the single-threaded performance impact as possible, along with any other concerns, before giving the no-GIL builds the full green light. Right now, the speedup doesn't amount to much (maybe 5% for most programs), but future versions of Python will expand the JIT's functionality where it yields real-world payoffs.

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