Python and the need for speed

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:46 PM, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
>> You'd be surprised how easy it is to be non-OS-neutral.
>
> It's not so simple. By OS-neutral I mean code that doesn't depend on special
> features of either OS (Ie. Windows and Linux). Not conditional code that
> does either Windows stuff or Linux stuff.
>

Which means, therefore, that you either can't have any file system
facilities, or must transparently expose them to the application. You
also will have a lot of trouble making cross-platform subprocess
functionality. Even sockets, which are notionally the same on all
platforms, have a lot of little differences.

To be truly OS-neutral, you basically have to be either nerfed to
nothing, or so thin you're doing nothing.

ChrisA