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Nuitka: A Python compiler

• scrollaway 9y ago
  Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15354613 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15354613
• scrollaway 9y ago
  I have to thank sametmax for mentioning this project in a separate thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16978932 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16978932). The project is indeed really astounding. 5000 clean commits, solid developer and user documentation, open source license, etc. And this solves, among other things, a very big and common problem for the Python community (packaging end-user apps). Just look at that README: https://github.com/kayhayen/Nuitka/blob/develop/README.rst https://github.com/kayhayen/Nuitka/blob/develop/README.rst Just LOOK at that developer manual: https://nuitka.net/doc/developer-manual.html https://nuitka.net/doc/developer-manual.html Dang.
• Rotareti 9y ago
  This looks fantastic! I wonder, does this make use of the new type annotations that were introduced with Python 3.5? I don't know much about compilers, but I guess those could be used (heavily) for performance optimization, like in Cython, no?
  • sametmax 9y ago
    No it doesn't but it's planned i believe. Although the author really could use support. Personnaly i donate, my c skills being zero.