Re:HRT's Python Fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for Faster Imports
by procaryote on Friday August 08, 2025 @03:59PM
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The gulf between high performance C/C++ and Python is vast and includes most other programming languages, many of which are friendly to write or can be made friendly to write for a limited domain, with significantly less rocket science needed than making python faster.
Re:HRT's Python Fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for Faster Imports
by instig007 on Friday August 08, 2025 @03:34PM
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> Sometimes it will be worth it to have the non-programmer write it in Python and then do Herculean things in the background to make it fast enough.
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Re:HRT's Python Fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for Faster Imports
by dmoy on Friday August 08, 2025 @03:36PM
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It would not surprise me if some shops end up using less common languages to fill a niche (or hell, invent their own DSL).
But it also wouldn't surprise me if a lot of shops land on python because that's what their hiring pool knows.
Sometimes it will be worth the tradeoff to put that person and a programmer together to code up a solution in another language. Sometimes it will be worth it to have the non-programmer write it in Python and then do Herculean things in the background to make it fast enough.