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Re:SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically ty... by intalentive on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @03:11PM (#45827318)
As a prospective user the first thing I look for is lists, list comprehension, list slices, string methods, zip, zip*, tuple destructuring, generators, dicts and sets. These data structures, their syntax, and associated methods are what make Python a joy to use. They are what make it possible to solve a puzzle in a one-liner.

The examples in the playground are neat but I don’t see any of the Python bread and butter usage. I see C with Python syntax.

I’d like to see Python syntax solving a problem in a pythonic way, albeit with type annotations. And then I’d like to see the compiled version run 30x-100x faster. Is that ultimately the promise of this project?

Re:SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically ty... by antocuni on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @04:49PM (#45828537)
yes (work in progress :))
Re:SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically ty... by intalentive on Thursday November 06, 2025 @04:16PM (#45840539)
Great, thank you, I will watch with interest. The killer feature seems to be interoperability with existing CPython libraries. Best of luck!