Can a pythonist help a rubyist brother out with a tl;dr? Are they removing the GIL? How does free threading differ from other threading paradigms?
As of this release, No-GIL/free threading Python has moved out of the experimental phase and is officially supported in this release. No-GIL Python is not the default for this release (that's potentially the next phase of the project), but running no-GIL/free threading is officially blessed.