I think this is a GREAT time to be doing this. This will undoubtedly shake the c-extension ecosystem. But it is already going to shake up because of Hpy (https:

I think this is a GREAT time to be doing this. This will undoubtedly shake the c-extension ecosystem. But it is already going to shake up because of Hpy (https://lwn.net/Articles/851202/ https://lwn.net/Articles/851202/) So might as well do it in one shot. But what im really interested in is - if this can be ported to Pypy. Given that pypy is already quite a bit faster than cpython...it would be interesting to see what the nogil will unleash