An exciting announcement from the Go team this morning! The upcoming release of Go 1.17 (due in September) will include GIL for Go, As the Pythonistas among us know, GIL is Python’s Global Interpreter Lock, which has been included in even the earliest versions of Python, but is missing from Go until now. This has been a constant source of complaints from python programmers transitioning to the world of Go. With the addition of the Global Interpreter Lock into Go’s runtime scheduler, Go will finally reach feature parity with Python on this important feature. The introduction of the GIL and the implicit serialisation of all Goroutines will eliminate a whole range of possible race conditions and synchronisation bugs. The inventor of the Python language Guido tweeted that after a two decades it is great to see Go finally catching up in this key area. He expressed his hope that Go will soon introduce Subinterpreters, which provide a simple, elegant and intuitive solution to the problem of achieving concurrency.
In a related announcement the Go team also announced that future versions of Go will introduce Type Annotations, and get rid of the pesky squiggly braces, and instead transition to indentation based blocks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/6b9935db-cc50-4f6e-9d6a-424d193694cdn%40googlegroups.com.
