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Pypy is really cool, and I hope it becomes the default interpreter down the road. However, little py3 support makes me edge away from it for now. Hopefully, all
by yahyaheee 11y ago
Pypy is really cool, and I hope it becomes the default interpreter down the road. However, little py3 support makes me edge away from it for now. Hopefully, all pythons will merge in the near future
- ludamad 11y agoThe versions cant really merge, there's runtime differences and you don't want to bloat with two of everything
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- ZenoArrow 11y agoI think the GP could be referring to PyPy becoming a replacement for CPython (or incorporated into CPython) as the canonical Python interpreter. It could theoretically happen after for a major release, and it could work out to be beneficial, though I think it's quite some time away if it happens at all.
- toyg 11y agoIt will never happen, the pypy codebase does not lend itself to the sort of quick evolution and extensibility that CPython delivers. Remember, the original goal of pypy was not "speed", that was a side effect.
- true_religion 11y agoWhat was the original goal of PyPy, and have they delivered on it?
- sanxiyn 11y agoThe original goal, if there was one, was Python implementation implemented in Python. This goal is achieved.
- toyg 11y agoThe original goal was to implement a runtime that could run multiple languages, similar to Perl's Parrot project, but targeting Python and written in what was basically a subset of python. It so happened that the resulting implementation ended up being very fast in some situations, the commercial world adopted it, and the project basically pivoted to being "the fast python runtime".