I can't believe it's 2017 and the official pypy updates come from blogspot; I thought this was a plea from a community member.
Anyway, really good on them to finally move on killing the GIL. It's been a long-time issue - the type that only gets worse the longer you ignore it. That said, I think today Python and GIL are synonymous and the entire Python ecosystem has almost evolved around the GIL. While I'm sure there are applications that would benefit from its removal, I think in the whole, the ecosystem will not change much because of this.
Anyway, really good on them to finally move on killing the GIL. It's been a long-time issue - the type that only gets worse the longer you ignore it. That said, I think today Python and GIL are synonymous and the entire Python ecosystem has almost evolved around the GIL. While I'm sure there are applications that would benefit from its removal, I think in the whole, the ecosystem will not change much because of this.