I am simultaneously excited for the implementation techniques that free threading is going to open up for framework authors and deeply concerned about the way I see discussions going around it, as it seems application authors will be speedrunning the “you can fit so many untestable data races in here” to “you can fit so many intractable mutex deadlocks in here” pipeline that java previewed for us all in the early aughts

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