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Re:The Python Steering Council intent to approve PEP 703: ma... by KRAKRISMOTT on Friday July 28, 2023 @06:07PM (#36914007)
Removing him as BDFL was probably the best thing to have happened to Python. He never prioritized performance as a top priority, at least not the same way Lua, JavaScript and Java did. Even Ruby has a JIT now.
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Re:The Python Steering Council intent to approve PEP 703: ma... by ambivalence on Friday July 28, 2023 @06:16PM (#36914088)
You know that people change their minds and now Guido is working as part of a team at Microsoft that is literally called "Faster CPython"?
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Re:The Python Steering Council intent to approve PEP 703: ma... by v3ss0n on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:13PM (#36914658)
Python had JIT for long, it's called PyPy, One of the most ambitious project ever happened to opensource
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Re:The Python Steering Council intent to approve PEP 703: ma... by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:11AM (#36916817)
> Removing him as BDFL was probably the best thing to have happened to Python. He never prioritized performance as a top priority

That doesn't follow; you're assuming that Python should prioritize performance as a top priority, which is very much not a given. Python has always excelled at being easy to use, being flexible, being a great glue language - but performant? An interpreted, dynamically typed language? That's like making a C interpreter - you can do it, but that doesn't make it a good idea.

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Re:The Python Steering Council intent to approve PEP 703: ma... by KRAKRISMOTT on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:57PM (#36922141)
> An interpreted, dynamically typed language? That's like making a C interpreter - you can do it, but that doesn't make it a good idea.

And yet despite your complaints, JavaScript, Lua and Julia continue to rise in popularity.

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Re:The Python Steering Council intent to approve PEP 703: ma... by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday July 29, 2023 @01:45PM (#36922650)
I never said anything about popularity - Python is easily one of the most popular languages. But speed has never been its goal or strong point.
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Re:The Python Steering Council intent to approve PEP 703: ma... by miraculixx on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:00AM (#36918600)
His leadership & decision arbitration is dearly missing. Now we have decide by committee and as a result we see Python being pushed and pulled in all directions.
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