Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL removal is accepted

• cinder

  43 3,375 9.4 Python

  Cinder is Meta's internal performance-oriented production version of CPython. (by facebookincubator)

  

They’ve kind of done that with Cinder https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder. Threads and Instagram lie on top of this and it’s essentially a fork of Python 3.10.

I think the problem there is even a company like Meta wants to rest on the shoulders of the giant Python community. It makes sense for Meta to try to get parts of Cinder into Python.

• codemod

  8 3,895 0.0 Python

  Discontinued Codemod is a tool/library to assist you with large-scale codebase refactors that can be partially automated but still require human oversight and occasional intervention. Codemod was developed at Facebook and released as open source.

  

That differs but is a reasonable understanding. I’m instead referring to automations that perform large scale refactoring as handled by Facebook, who would be contributing to this effort.

https://github.com/facebookarchive/codemod

It sounds like what you are describing is what’s known as poly fills which convert code into a variant that maximizes function across implementations which isn’t really applicable here.

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• nogil-3.12

  3 142 6.9 Python

  Multithreaded Python without the GIL (experimental rebase on 3.12)

• Filestash

  108 9,414 9.3 JavaScript

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> but I don't think its the companies responsibility to give back to open source just because they use it

As someone who does quite a bit of OSS, the reality is most people are asking for things but aren't willing to pay for it. Take Microsoft, I had one of their employee asking me to support their azure stuff: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/issues/180. When I found out the dude was actually employed by Microsoft, he started to talk some nonsense and ended up running away.

• numpy

  4 3 0.0

  The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python. (by colesbury)

I can’t imagine you’ve read the proposal with a comment like this. The interpreter is already patched (twice in the proposal, for two different versions of Python), and Sam Gross has personally already patched many commonly used Python libraries. Here’s numpy patched, a mess of C and Fortran written for high performance code: https://github.com/colesbury/numpy/commits/v1.24.0-nogil

This comment is the definition of FUD.

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