PyPy is production ready now, but that's actually a fairly recent development. I first heard about peel 6 in 2007, well before PyPy could have been predicted to

PyPy is production ready now, but that's actually a fairly recent development. I first heard about peel 6 in 2007, well before PyPy could have been predicted to work. Python barely had Psycho going for it. ParrotVM was the original form of PyPy, in some ways, and it just turned out to be too massively ambitious for a community that was already beginning to dwindle.