The article is well written, and a good history of the all ordeal. But please note it gives more weight to the "against the GIL" side of the story, and all that can go wrong.

It doesn't highlight enough the other side of the coin:

- Sam's work is very high quality, and he brought with the no-gil some unrelated perf improvements so that people don't feel like they loose perf too much.

- Sam played the open source game perfectly, and is incredibly patient given what he is bringing on the able and how slow and flaccid the steering council reaction was (without the community pushing on it, it would still be collecting dust).

- Sub interpreters have yet to demonstrate any usefulness at all in Python. In fact, any serious metrics at all. This is the first attempt to be that well defined, and measured.

- The community feedback shown a great interest in this particular project.

- The steering council did conclude "We intend to accept PEP 703, although we’re still working on the acceptance details."

I'm not a no-gil enthusiast. I would be fine with have it never be removed, and I think we should try sub-interpreter first.

But what's fair is fair.