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No, it runs deeper than that. You're mostly reaching out for pypy in case you're running into the wall with performance, one way or another. In that situation t
by fijal 11y ago
No, it runs deeper than that. You're mostly reaching out for pypy in case you're running into the wall with performance, one way or another. In that situation the LAST thing you want to do is to move to another language that does not give you answers to that performance problems. People are moving to go, yes, but not to python 3 in that case.
- thomasahle 11y agoBut then there are the people who've only started their codebases within the last five years, and so have been Python 3 all along.
- fijal 11y agoRight. And those people are slowly getting to the problems that pypy potentially solves. We are focusing so far on widening the base of what we do, but if there is enough interest, we'll work on pypy3.
- cookiecaper 11y agoPython3 is going to be the default Python in Ubuntu next month. Do you anticipate that having any effect on your perceived user base? FWIW, almost all of the applications I've written in Python over the past 4 years have been Py3. I'd like to use PyPy on them.
- jjawssd 11y agoHe doesn't care because that isn't where the money is coming from
- stock_toaster 11y agoIt doesn't sound like just money. It sounded like he was saying that he doesn't care because there is comparatively little (historic and current) demand for PYPY3.
- toyg 11y agoFrom a certain perspective, money == demand. I don't blame him, pypy has always had a money problem (hence crowdfunding etc etc).
- mike_hearn 11y agoThere's a similiar project to PyPy called ZipPy which is based on Graal/Truffle, except that it targets Python 3. It isn't complete, but it's probably easier to flesh out than porting PyPy to 3 itself. Check it out: https://bitbucket.org/ssllab/zippy https://bitbucket.org/ssllab/zippy