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Not really the same - Unladen Swallow gave up because llvm JIT was immature. Pyston gave up because Dropbox is moving to Go. That's a bad sign.
by mhneu 10y ago
Not really the same - Unladen Swallow gave up because llvm JIT was immature.
Pyston gave up because Dropbox is moving to Go. That's a bad sign.
- zellyn 10y agoSure, the approach is different. But the "large company allows a couple of devs to work on a faster Python impl for a while until they realize it's harder than expected" story seems very similar.