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Re:Python for Android by woadwarrior01 on Thursday August 08, 2013 @12:36PM (#6180010)
PyPy has had experimental backends for JVM, CLI and LLVM, but AFAIK, none of them have ever been the primary backend.
Re:Python for Android by jnbiche on Thursday August 08, 2013 @02:37PM (#6180876)
It also had a JavaScript target in the beginning. Pretty cool. But I understand why they had to drop those to concentrate on their primary RPython backend. Since building a fast, self-hosting compiler was one of the main goals of the project (another major goal being to create a JIT compiler framework for any language to adopt, which PyPy is great at but no one knows it).