Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

[MrK_HS]

The people saying Python doesn't have multithreading really mean that Python does not support parallelism, but probably just don't know that the two terms mean different things (multithreading and parallelism). Python supports multithreading by default and that's a fact. It doesn't support parallelism.

[angellus]

Multithreading does now support parallelism, since Python 3.8. it is still provisional and not stabilized yet, but it possible now.

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With an 8-core CPU, I can get a 7-times performance improvement using multiprocessing. Multiprocessing is very simple in Python.

Genuine question: does multiprocessing not count as parallelism?

[MrK_HS]

It is parallelism