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> I guess also economic incentives, there hasn't been an incentive for anybody to staff a 50 person project to build a Python JIT given that it's cheaper to rew
by oweiler 7y ago
> I guess also economic incentives, there hasn't been an incentive for anybody to staff a 50 person project to build a Python JIT given that it's cheaper to rewrite some or all of the application in C/C++/Rust/Go whereas that's not an option in Javascriptland.
Ask Dropbox https://github.com/dropbox/pyston https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
- jsnell 7y agoRight, let's ask Dropbox: https://blog.pyston.org/2017/01/31/pyston-0-6-1-released-and-future-plans/ https://blog.pyston.org/2017/01/31/pyston-0-6-1-released-and... (And after that blog post, there are no commits in the github repo you linked to).
- aswanson 7y agoYeah, I was excited when they announced this effort. Sad they 86ed it.