[Edu-sig] Python ecosystem (Blaze, NumPy, PyPy...)

[kirby urner]

I should have changed the subject line.

More on the funding story:

http://news.dice.com/2013/02/06/continuum-analytics-using-darpa-funds-to-explore-python/

EU funding for PyPy:

http://conferences.agilealliance.org/sessions/20060356

Then there's trying to get funding to have NumPy support PyPy or vice versa:

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/10/numpy-funding-and-status-update.html

Kirby


On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 6:13 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:
>
>> >In sketching out the Python ecosystem in broad brush terms, is it fair to
>> >say NumPy gets a lot of US investment whereas PyPy is more an EU pet
>> >project?  Or is that too broad brush?
>>
>> Too broad.  In investment terms, PyPy gets from _everywhere_,
>> including lots from the USA.  But PyPy core contributors are still
>> mostly from not-in-the-USA ... unless things have changed in the last
>> 6 months while I have been busy elsewhere.
>>
>> Laura
>>
>>
> OK.  I was partly asking because I know the US government is putting funds
> directly into Blaze:
>
> http://continuum.io/blog/blaze
>
> I don't know if the US government itself directly pays for PyPy
> development, but my impression is the EU itself does.
>
> Kirby
>
>
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