points by benrutter 2 days ago | 0 comments
> How many Python JIT experiments have failed?
Wait, how many? I'd say just this one. The other that I know of, pypy, was massively successful for a single maintainer project. And definitely showed the possibility/potential of JIT python.
I wouldn't call it a failure for not over taking mainline CPython.
> Wait, how many? I'd say just this one.
I can name at least a couple others: Unladen Swallow, Pyston.
> The other that I know of, pypy, was massively successful for a single maintainer project.
PyPy had multiple active core developers during the 2000s.