didymospl

>If I want to hire someone good in the capital city, Warsaw, I'll need to look at paying a minimum of $4-$5,000/month

Do you work at Google by any chance? I'd say a gross salary of $5000 is close to the ceiling pay for a developer in Poland, in Krakow/Wroclaw even $4000 is more than most employers would pay, not to mention your "middle of nowhere" [0] [1] And if you're looking for a remote worker what difference does their location make?

Sources(in Polish):

[0] http://gazetapraca.pl/gazetapraca/1,120733,16021624,Wysokie_...

[1] http://www.pulshr.pl/wynagrodzenia/place-w-polsce-2016-19-br...

It may not be sufficient but it is surely very useful when you have no idea how to pronounce the word. Besides, I think it works quite well for English. When I started learning it I had to rely on the IPA transcriptions every time I looked up new words in a dictionary. Even now, when online dictionaries have nice recordings of the vocabulary spoken by native speakers, I still use it for proper nouns(names etc.) that are not included in dictionaries when I can't find the recorded pronunciation e.g. on Youtube.

I wrote explicitly that this is a problem with CPython. I totally agree that this is not the problem of the language itself. Neither are the most of the points from the parent post(tooling, community, performance, error messages). Yet all that still greatly affects your experience with the language. Same applies to the default implementation. I think you would agree if I said that Sun(Oracle) JVM played an important role in Java adoption, wouldn't you? Unfortunately, it's not so easy to just switch to some other implementation of Python: PyPy uses GIL as well, IronPython and Jython don't but they are years behind the current version of the language. GIL is not a problem when you use libraries that handle concurrency natively(e.g. NumPy) but when you try to parallelize some computationally intensive algorithm written in Python you're probably going to hit the wall. I love Python but it's really not a one-size-fits-all tool.

8. Global Interpreter Lock in CPython

Great idea! My company requires external libraries licenses to be revieved every half a year and it usually takes a couple of days to do so. Your project could be a real time-saver. Unfortunately the integration with Maven does not seem to work in most cases, if it did I would already have sent the link to our CTO.

Apple even named a programming language after her and she still refuses to cooperate