andrew cooke wrote: > Fuzzyman wrote: >> On Mar 15, 3:46 pm, Gerhard Häring <g...@ghaering.de> wrote: > [...] >>> Me too. I doubt it, though. From an outside view, the project seems to >>> lack focus. To me, it looks like a research platform, and producing a >>> successor to CPython seems to be just one out of a dozen projects. > [...] >> Well, I know the guys involved and they are focused on making PyPy a >> practical (and importantly a faster) alternative to CPython. It has >> just taken a long time - but is finally showing real progress. >> >> They did get distracted along the way, but one of things that happened >> last year was a culling of a lot of the side projects that made it >> harder to make progress on the core goals. > > This is so good to hear. I had exactly the same concerns as Gerhard. > Thanks for posting some information.
I think the period as a research platform (IIRC the project was funded by a research grant from the EU after all[*]) was maybe necessary to get where they are now...? [*] I'm happy to see at least this part of my taxes being spent for something good... ;-) -- JanC -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
