# Announcing the Python Language Summit 2026 blog posts

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/announcing-the-python-language-summit-2026-blog-posts/109284>\
**Category:** Core Development\
**Tags:** language-summit\
**Created:** [September 30, 2026, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/announcing-the-python-language-summit-2026-blog-posts/109284 "2026-09-30T13:17:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/announcing-the-python-language-summit-2026-blog-posts/109284/1 "2026-09-30T13:17:48Z")

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Hey everyone, the Python Language Summit 2026 blog posts are now available on Python Insider. The Python Language Summit took place on July 14th, 2026, this year held in Kraków, Poland at EuroPython 2026. I hope you enjoy reading them and thank you for your patience.

 ![Python Language Summit attendees posing for the group photo. Notably, Pablo Galindo Salgado is drinking a beverage with a saucer and Larry Hastings is laying flat sprawled on the floor with his eyes closed.](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/python1/original/3X/c/5/c5061b85b5ee94737162e91544a8574a389cd1d4.webp)

Main article: [Python Language Summit 2026 | Python Insider](https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026/)

- “[One namespace to namespace them all](https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-namespaces)” by Pablo Galindo Salgado
- “[macOS and Python](https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-macos-python)” by Ned Deily
- “[Garbage Collection: Generational? Incremental? Both!](https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-garbage-collection-generational-incremental-both)” by Mark Shannon
- “[Memory Buffer Protocol](https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-memory-buffer-protocol)” by Nathan Goldbaum
- “[Memory Snapshots for CPython](https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-memory-snapshots)” by Hood Chatham
- “[Rust for CPython](https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-rust-for-cpython)” by David Hewitt
- “[Spicycrab](https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-spicycrab)” by Kushal Das
- “[Developer-in-Residence Update & Future](https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-developer-in-residence-update-and-future)” by Petr Viktorin
- “[Free-Threaded Python Post-Era](https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-free-threading-post-era)” by Donghee Na, Tobias Wrigstad, and Fridtjof Stoldt
- “[PEP 827: Type Manipulation](https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-pep-827-type-manipulation)” by Michael J. Sullivan
- “[Lightning Talks](https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-lightning-talks)”
  - “One-time ABI breakage” by Mark Shannon
  - “Safer and Generic Interruptions” by Daniele Parmeggiani
  - “EktuPy, Scratch but Python” by Kushal Das
  - “`AGENTS.md` for CPython” by Gregory P. Smith and Łukasz Langa
  - “Please read PEP 836 (JIT go brrr)” by Ken Jin

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**Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 5:28pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/announcing-the-python-language-summit-2026-blog-posts/109284/2 "2026-10-05T17:28:53Z")

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Erlang does both reference counting GC and heap based GC and this is a problem they’ve worked on for a long time. Maybe y’all should read about their adventures with garbage collection?