A Fresh Look at Rust

Re:A Fresh Look at Rust by pjmlp on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @08:51AM (#8394011)

I guess it depends on the nature of the work being done.

Personally I never used Python for anything other than glorified shell scripts and Websphere installations (after Jacl got replaced by Jython).

For everything else I prefer languages with type inference and availability of native compilers (AOT/JIT) in their toolchains.

How good is PyPy for production code nowadays?

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Re:A Fresh Look at Rust by DasIch on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @11:22AM (#8395144)

> How good is PyPy for production code nowadays?

Unless you are using CPython extensions, PyPy is usable as a drop-in replacement that's significantly faster in almost all cases. In order to notice any significant speed gain, the JIT needs a chance to "warm up" though, so on short running applications or on web applications for the first couple of requests PyPy can be slower than CPython.

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