Interviews: Q&A With Guido van Rossum

Guido van Rossum is best known as the creator of Python, and he remains the BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life) in the community. The recipient of many awards for his work, and author of numerous books, he left Google in December and started working for Dropbox early this year. A lot has happened in the 12 years since we talked to Guido and he's agreed to answer your questions. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.

Re:GIL

[HaZardman27]

I think they've always been open about the fact that the GIL will be removed once someone offers a good solution for removing it.

Python in the browser ?

[Btrot69]

Over the years, there have been several attempts to create a sandboxed version of python that will safely run in a web browser.
Mostly this was because of problems with Javascript.
Now that Javascript works -- and we have nice things like CoffeeScript -- is it time to give up on python in the browser ?

Explanation

[Errol backfiring]

GIL stands for Global Interpreter Lock, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Interpreter_Lock [wikipedia.org]