Python is becoming the world’s most popular programming language

Re:Python is becoming the world’s most popular programming l... by Rotareti on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @04:14AM (#18182955)

> try to maintain > 10k LOC codebases in Python to understand what I mean.

Since Python 3.5 you can use type annotations:

    def my_func(foo: str, bar: User) -> None:

        baz: int = User.qux

This is a useful feature for larger code bases.

In the long run, I'm sure some org will come up with a decent Python compiler, that:

* compiles Python to C

* makes use of (optional) type annotations

* improves performance

* creates single file binaries

I guess this would be less of an effort than porting the whole Python ecosystem to e.g. Julia.

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Re:Python is becoming the world’s most popular programming l... by demonshreder on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @04:27AM (#18183017)

Nuitka (http://nuitka.net/pages/overview.html) seems to be attempting to do those.

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Re:Python is becoming the world’s most popular programming l... by Rotareti on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:16AM (#18183239)

Nuitka is awesome. I used it to compile a Python command line tool recently and it worked fine. In fact, it worked so well that I added a Nuitka build script to that project... But Nuitka is written and maintained by a single person [0]. I think for such a huge task (with so many edge cases) it needs more attention/support in order to become mainstream.

[0]: https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/graphs/contributors

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