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PyPy is being update very regularly with 3 releases a year on average. Most of the work however focuses on things our users really want - stability, performance
by fijal 11y ago
PyPy is being update very regularly with 3 releases a year on average. Most of the work however focuses on things our users really want - stability, performance, C extension support, warmup speed, memory consumption - you know the mundane stuff. If someone is willing to put effort into supporting more python 3, that's great! we would welcome the contributions.
PS. We're closing onto 3.3 release soon
PPS. Google donated a bit of money to PyPy when Guido was there, definitely "google supporting pypy" is a bit of a stretch. It was years ago though
- sandGorgon 11y agoGoogle not supporting it in a big way is very strange. is there a political conflict between cpython and pypy ? Because it seems to me that Pypy is the future of python. and it makes total sense for someone like Google or Dropbox to support it with a lot of money.
- fijal 11y agoIt makes sense != it makes money. Google does not support cpython either in any meaningful way (that is, someone hired full time to work on cpython for example).
- sandGorgon 11y agohuh ? https://www.python.org/~guido/ https://www.python.org/~guido/ In January 2013 I joined Dropbox. I work on various Dropbox products and have 50% for my Python work, no strings attached. http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/interview-guido-van-rossum http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/interview-guido-van-ros... I don't have a 20% project per se, but I have Google's agreement that I can spend 50% of my time on Python, with no strings attached, so I call this my “50% project”.
- dalke 11y agoDropbox isn't Google. I don't know if Google does or does not provide meaningful support to CPython development. Certainly it did, as you point out. But fijal's comment was about the present, not the past.