The Cython compiler is 20 years old today !

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On 2022-04-05 04:47, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 7:42 AM Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Python community,
>>
>> it's now 20 years since Greg Ewing posted his first announcement of Pyrex,
>> the tool that is now known and used under the name Cython.
>>
>> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/126661.html
>>
> 
> That's a cool anniversary.
> 
> I often shake my head in wonder when I see people still writing extension
> modules in C instead of Cython.

Some of us do it because we enjoy it, much like doing crosswords or 
sudoku or wordle, but with an end result! :-)