Alternative Python Implementations
The cluster discusses various alternative Python runtimes and performance improvement projects like PyPy, Pyston (Dropbox), Pyjion (Microsoft), and Unladen Swallow (Google), including their goals, adoption challenges, company efforts, and comparisons to CPython.
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Was your effort Pyston?https://github.com/pyston/pyston
There's PyPy. I think the problem with python is the community is especially resistant to breaking changes.
What did they switch to after Python wouldn't scale?
What was the original goal of PyPy, and have they delivered on it?
How do people use pypy? Do you target it from the start of a project, or port existing projects to it?
Exciting work! Is pyjion exploratory or is MS determined to see this through?
Author here,I just posted a link to an article mentioning this project --> https://david-delassus.medium.com/writing-python-like-its-el... (friend link to bypass paywall, HN seems to remove the auth token).Ask me anything.
On the other hand, this is a good explanation: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/aug/12/pypy-transition/
Care to share the python project? Asking as someone who's made PRs to CPython's core in the past
Could you explain why you think contributing to PyPy would better achieve the goal of replacing the Python implementation in Dropbox's codebase?