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davidkwastyesterday at 2:13 PM2 repliesview on HN

"Python 3.14 shipped with a new incremental garbage collector. However, we’ve had a number of reports of significant memory pressure in production environments.

We’ve decided to revert it in both 3.14 and 3.15, and go back to the generational GC from 3.13."

Sounds the right move for me


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winridyesterday at 3:41 PM

The main benefit of python to me is that while slow, it's predictable. I do think they're going to get a lot more resistance to adding JITs, moving GCs, etc. it will become java with a million knobs to tune. If people want a JIT'd python just use pypy, right?

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bmitctoday at 8:27 AM

Why are people still building systems on top of a language that continually undergoes fundamental changes nearly 40 years after release? Is this not the strongest indication that this language is not well designed, it is unstable, and encounters many issues that flat out don't exist in other high level languages?