2026-07-06 06:44 UTC
the ongoing existence of cpython and the under-resourcing of pypy is baffling to me
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@jamesh@aus.social 2026-07-06 07:48
@wingo@mastodon.social A lot of it comes down to people not just targeting the language syntax, but the ecosystem of extensions coded to cpython's C API. Things have improved over the years, with pypy supporting more of the C API and cpython deprecating parts of the API that depended more on object representations. But for a long time, choosing pypy meant throwing away most of the ecosystem that attracted people to Python in the first place.