Article on the future of Python

Kevin Walzer kw at codebykevin.com
Wed Sep 26 09:30:19 EDT 2012


On 9/25/12 11:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> IronPython in C#. Jython is written in Java. CLPython is written in Lisp.
> Berp and HoPe are written in Haskell. Nuitka is written in C++. Skulpt is
> written in Javascript. Vyper is written in Ocaml. PyPy is written in
> RPython.
>
> Some of those Python compilers are obsolete, unmaintained or
> experimental. Others are not. But either way, it is certainly not true
> that Python is written in C. One specific Python compiler happens to be
> written in C, that is all.

Apart from IronPython, what constituency do these alternative 
implementations of Python have that would raise them above the level of 
interesting experiments?

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Kevin Walzer
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