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Why does PyPy not get support from the big Python based giants - the Dropboxes or the Googles of the world. It seems to me that PyPy is struggling for funding.
by sandGorgon 11y ago
Why does PyPy not get support from the big Python based giants - the Dropboxes or the Googles of the world. It seems to me that PyPy is struggling for funding.
PyPy has the potential to become the canonical Python - if the entire team had their finances taken care of (and not have to do things like http://baroquesoftware.com/ http://baroquesoftware.com/ ).
Is there a particular reason for this ?
- bkeroack 11y agoPyPy is in the unfortunate position of being both uninteresting to many of those who rely on Python (numpy, etc and Spark work fine and are fast without PyPy) and irrelevant to application developers who switched off Python because it was too slow (to things like Go, Rust, etc). (This isn't an insult to PyPy, btw--it's an amazing project that has accomplished a lot. I'm just explaining why it doesn't get the support one might expect.)
- sandGorgon 11y agobut assuming the vast majority of python users are using it for web application and so is Dropbox/Google, it seems to me that PyPy has a marketing+PR problem than anything else.
- pwang 11y agoThat's not a fair assumption: a huge number of Python users are using it for some level of data processing and data analysis. And that percentage is growing each day, because Python is a very hot technology in data science.