Frank Nicholas <[email protected]>:
> If you haven’t seen [Grumpy], you might be interested. Not sure of the
> quality (experimental?)
>
> Google boosts Python by turning it into Go:
Yes, Gary turned me on to this earlier in the week. Grumpy is extremely
interesting, as a path forward for reposurgeon if not for NTP.
Right now it has two disqualifying problems for NTP purposes. One is that
they've abandoned support for C extensions. We can't live with that; we
need to keep the C calendar code accessible because hand-translating it
to Python would be a bug-prone nightmare.
(I actually looked at this possibility pretty hard. C extensions are useful
but they're definitely defect attractors - I would have strongly preferred
the userspace tools to be Python all the way down. It wasn't practical.)
The other problem is that I'm not satisfied it's production-quality yet.
Nor do I think it's likely to be by the time we need to transition.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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