Intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional
The creator and lead maintainer of SQLAlchemy, one of the most popular and most used Python libraries for accessing databases (who doesn't?) gave a rather interesting response to PEP703.<p>> Basically for the moment the GIL-less idea would likely be burdensome for us and the fact that it's only an "option" seems to strongly imply major compatibility issues that we would not prefer.<p>(...)<p>> Adding an entirely new mode of operation to cPython that's optional would be an enormous burden for us as far as ensuring we use APIs appropriately, adding support, testing, we would have to spin up new test workers to test SQLAlchemy in both modes of operation, we would be getting strange new race condition related issues reported<p><a href="https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/discussions/10002#discussioncomment-6252988">https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/discussions/10002#d...</a>