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Re:RustPython – A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.11.0) Interpreter w... by brucethemoose2 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:02PM (#35060402)
It would be nice to have an official, more performant statically typed/less dynamic subset of Python.

Yeah we have mypy, but its not official and not integrated. And subsets that do have a performance benefit (like TorchScript) are niche and/or not sustainably supported.

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Re:RustPython – A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.11.0) Interpreter w... by wyldfire on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @04:37PM (#35061600)
Well -- other languages have shown up to try and fill this niche.
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Re:RustPython – A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.11.0) Interpreter w... by ben-schaaf on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @11:26PM (#35065248)
Not statically typed, but rpython is a statically analyzable subset of python that is used to write pypy: https://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rpython.html
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Re:RustPython – A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.11.0) Interpreter w... by brucethemoose2 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @11:42PM (#35065342)
That looks very reasonable. Converting a Python codebase would be much easier than porting to a new language.

Now all your imports, on the other hand...

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