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Hence the "So it's something that had be delayed.", and not "this is something impossible". Javascript has the benefit of having billions of dollars allocated

Hence the "So it's something that had be delayed.", and not "this is something impossible". Javascript has the benefit of having billions of dollars allocated to it from Google/Microsoft/Apple to hire dozen of amazing engineers full time over decades to work on it. Python has existed since 1994, yet in 2011, the Python Software Fundation budget was less than $40K: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2012/01/psf-grants-over-37000-to-python.html https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2012/01/psf-grants-over-37000-t... We are talking a difference of funding of 6 order of magnitudes. Not to mention one is a language that has to stand on its own, the second has an accidental monopoly on the most popular plateform in the world. So it had to be delayed, unlike for JS.

SemanticStrengh 4y ago
> Python has existed since 1994, yet in 2011, the Python Software Fundation budget was less than $40K Exact, as usual it is mainly a question of human resources. Hence why I advocate for Python switching to GraalPython as the default runtime, it would enable much better performance in the next few years. Also, I'm pretty sure cpython devs should ask Google/OpenAI/MicrosoftAI funding, how many millions can they waste on useless projects while not improving the core bottleneck..
- BiteCode_dev 4y ago
  You are asking for the rarest thing of all, a geek and volounteer worker that is also good at dealing with big entities and comfortable with managing money.