The brief blurb about how GIL came to be, in light of Python’s success as a language and a tool, makes me question my s/e belief system. Things like this are like when good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people. It makes you question the meaning of it all. Is there no great architect in the sky? Is there no software god after all, looking down, punishing sloppy engineers and granting blessi…
Tools win not because they are "better" in some platonic ideal of a programming language but because they are more practical for solving the problems people have. Python, JS, C, Bash aren't even particularly great at the problems they solve, but they succeed mostly on inertia (it's where all the libraries are, it's what people know) and occupying developer mindshare. They are full of obvious design mistakes; things t…
This is basically the only part of your post I disagree with, for reasons you pointed out yourself.
Low-hanging-fruit would imply that it is easy to displace these flawed languages with something better. And you have made a beautiful argument for why that is very very very difficult indeed.