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Unladen Swallow got a lot of hype but was only a very small project. IIRC the only people working on it were two interns. V8 was a much higher priority - Googl
by pansa2 10mo ago
Unladen Swallow got a lot of hype but was only a very small project. IIRC the only people working on it were two interns.
V8 was a much higher priority - Google hired many of the world’s best VM engineers to develop it.
- pjmlp 10mo agoSome of them like Lars Bak, have background up to Self VM, which is a language much more dynamic than Python. Anything goes regarding changing object shapes, it is one step further than Smalltalk in language plasticity.