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I think he was subtly Rick Rolling you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Gonna_Give_You_Up

On 12 March 1988, "Never Gonna Give You Up" reached number one in the American Billboard Hot 100 chart after having been played by resident DJ, Larry Levan, at the Paradise Garage in 1987. The single topped the charts in 25 countries worldwide.




Actually it just meant that this is a tired old argument when C/C++ programmers were new to multithreaded code.

Now we have languages and language facilities (consider Rust, Haskell, and others) to make it much safer. Same with green threads and what Go and now Java does.


And yet, the actual proposals for how to do multithreading in Python are essentially the same as the old C/C++ approaches. And since that hasn't changed, there is no reason to expect better results.




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