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>Many popular languages nowadays essentially have just one viable open source toolchain: Go has the Go toolchain (gccgo being niche), Python 3 has CPython (Jyth
by dispose13432 10y ago
>Many popular languages nowadays essentially have just one viable open source toolchain: Go has the Go toolchain (gccgo being niche), Python 3 has CPython (Jython and IronPython only support Python 2.7, and PyPy is not up-to-date), Swift has the apple toolchain, Haskell has GHC (none of the other compilers is widely used).
The problem is that having multiple providers prevents the BDFL from playing too hard with the language.
If there was an alternate Python toolchain, Python3 wouldn't have happened.