It's Pyston! Guido works at Dropbox, so any new revolutionary Python system from there is likely to carry his stamp on it. He has seemed impressed by PyPy in the past, but always a little distant. I think this is what he wants for the future of Python. Not an all-encompassing "python written in python" but a straightforward JIT to bring it up to at least JVM speed, and maybe better.
On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 2:04:34 PM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > What did I miss? Where is it? > > On Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:01:50 UTC-5, Joe Barnhart wrote: >> >> Ha! Well now we know Guido's answer to Armin and the gang at PyPy! >> >> -- Joe >> >> On Thursday, April 3, 2014 11:41:22 AM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >>> >>> This is really important! >>> >>> https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an-upcoming-jit-based-python-implementation/ >>> >>> Why is this important? >>> because finally a major technology company has committed to improve an >>> already existing language that we love (Python) as opposed to inventing >>> their own (Dart, Go, etc). >>> I trust something good will come out of this. Hopefully sooner rather >>> than later. >>> >>> Massimo >>> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
