What's up with modern Python programmers rewriting everything in Rust?

Paulo da Silva p_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns at nonetnoaddress.pt
Mon Jun 20 12:38:36 EDT 2022


Às 16:40 de 20/06/22, Dennis Lee Bieber escreveu:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:54:29 +0100, Paulo da Silva
> <p_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns at nonetnoaddress.pt> declaimed the following:
> 
>> Às 15:07 de 19/06/22, jan Anja escreveu:
>>> Dude, it's called CPython for a reason.
>>
>> IMHO CPython means Core Python, not C Python.
> 
> 	It is, as I recall, a term for the reference implementation of Python,
> which was written in C... In contrast to things like Jython -- Python
> implemented using Java.
> 
> 
Yes, it is a reference. That's why it is called "Core Python". The "C" 
has nothing to do with the C programming language. It may well be 
written in any language. So far it is "C" language.


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