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Pure Python was a huge selling point back when using a compiled library involved downloading and running random .exe files from someone's personal page on a uni
by smnrchrds 1y ago
Pure Python was a huge selling point back when using a compiled library involved downloading and running random .exe files from someone's personal page on a university website. It is much less of a selling point now that we have binary wheels and uv/Poetry/etc. that create cross-platform lock files.
I feel nostalgic seeing (a mirror of) that download page again, but that era was such a pain.
Mirror: http://qiniucdn.star-lai.cn/portal/2016/09/05/tu3p2vd4znn http://qiniucdn.star-lai.cn/portal/2016/09/05/tu3p2vd4znn
- dec0dedab0de 1y agoI always thought the selling point of Pure Python was that you might be running on some esoteric implementation of python, or hardware that the library maintainer didn't include binaries for. I mean, I am glad wheels exist, they make things a lot easier for a lot of people. I just believed in the dream of targeting the language for maximum compatibility and hoping a better implementation would eventually run it faster.
- kccqzy 1y agoIndeed. I was an early adopter of Google's App Engine using Python and at that time Pure Python is a must.