Official support for free-threaded Python, an experimental JIT, and a smarter installation manager for Windows are among the goodies in Python 3.14. Now in a release candidate.

It's been a leap-ahead year for Python—bringing on more speed, less cruft, and a large and growing user base. Credit: Pavel L Photo and Video / Shutterstock Over the course of 2024, Python has ...

Second, Python Threads provide no mechanism for thread control. You can't set their priority, you can't pause them, and in general they aren't even very "good" threads.

A silly attempt to keep my other thread from derailing. So I've always had an irrational dislike for Python. I tried some programming ages ago and didn't like it, but I didn't really go deep ...