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> a clean implementation and no compatiblity hacks Ignoring the minor typo, this statement will cause some in the audience to frown ;) The value of an implemen
by dmw_ng 5y ago
> a clean implementation and no compatiblity hacks
Ignoring the minor typo, this statement will cause some in the audience to frown ;) The value of an implementation like this is the compatibility hacks. Maybe take a few leaves out of the PyPy/HPy book.. PyPy has been amazing from the outset, but only a fraction of the community have been able to use it because the compatibility story initially was very weak. 15 years later and it's still not quite there, and consequently neither are the users.
- eatonphil 5y agoThe graveyard of clean Python implementations is plentiful indeed. Everyone who dropped the GIL, for example.
- throwaway81523 5y agoDon't forget that Python itself (the language) is designed around compatibility hacks, i.e. convenient implementation in the context of whatever CPython code was already there.