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Pypy is nice if you want more performance. From my experience it seems underused. Never seen jython and ironpython used - yet.
by pletnes 3y ago
Pypy is nice if you want more performance. From my experience it seems underused. Never seen jython and ironpython used - yet.
- eventualhorizon 3y agoI worked on a project (15+ years ago) that used Jython to put a web front end on GDS systems (airline reservation mainframes). It was in production and being used in some of the largest travel call centers at the time. The whole thing was built in Jython.
- doix 3y agoAround 4-5 years ago, I saw a lot of IronPython used by data analysts using Spotfire[0]. I've seen Jython used to write an IDE on top of Eclipse. I'm guessing almost nobody uses it for their SaaS, but outside of that, these runtimes do see some use. [0] https://www.spotfire.com/ https://www.spotfire.com/
- lmm 3y agoPypy gives you at best a single-digit speedup, and requires carefully going through your dependencies and checking all your codepaths. That's rarely a good value proposition for a business - if you're growing fast enough that performance is an issue, you're going to need a bigger speedup than that pretty soon, and if you're taking the time to go through all your codepaths, it doesn't cost a lot more to make a bigger change like switching languages entirely.