Comment by tinnet

  Many systems using other “preferred languages” also
  implement some form of GIL (e.g., Javascript’s V8 machine,
  CPython); we don’t hear complaints about it, because these
  languages have a rapport for heavy lifting and parallel tasks.

As a python developer i almost fell off my chair when i read this section. We don't hear complaints about the GIL in python? I love the article's tone in general but that's some heavy Gell-Mann Amnesia or filtered news sources :)