On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn <[email protected]> wrote: > Right now I'm in Charles de Gaulle, about to fly home after EuroScipy 2010. > > I just wanted to post the main impression from the conference: Cython > appears now to be a very mainstream tool in scientific Python computing. > At some point it felt like every other talk mentioned Cython favourably, > and Cython was prominent in both keynotes. (It was also nice that Konrad > Hinsen made sure to attribute Pyrex as well.) > > I don't mean to gloat, but...well...it's hard not to share this: At one > point a happy boost::python user got up and asked if nobody had heard > about it, since he heard nothing about it. He asked everybody who had > heard about it to raise their hand (very many) and then everybody who > used it and where happy with it to raise their hand (and that was only a > few). > > (Of course, he didn't ask about how many were using Cython. Lots of > people have only heard about Cython and are not using it. Still > interesting.) > > Apart from that, there's was lots of interesting people and talks :-)
Cool, thanks for the report. I heard second hand that Cython was a common topic at SciPy in Texas last week too. - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
