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Re:Advanced Python: Achieving High Performance with Code Generation on Friday September 06, 2024 @10:50AM (#41466748)
Ad-hoc, informally specified and bug-ridden (Greenspun's tenth rule applies very much to Python).

I'm not criticizing the article, which humorously draws Dr.Strangelove analogies to these techniques. What I don't understand is that this sort thing has been popular for over 20 years in the Python space.