On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 4:56:27 AM UTC-5, Brecht Machiels wrote: > On 2017-04-11 08:19:31 +0000, Steven D'Aprano said: > > > On Sun, 09 Apr 2017 19:05:35 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
[...] > > The Python ecosystem is actually quite healthy, if you > > need to speed up code there are lots of solutions, and > > some of them are even good solutions. > > There seem to be no solutions for my use case (rinohtype). > DropBox and Google seem to agree that there are no good > solutions, since they are moving to Go. Yup! > > Nevertheless, it is interesting to discuss whether or not > > any of these features will go mainstream or make it into > > CPython. > > Indeed! I initially wanted to include the following in the > article, but decided it would be too controversial. But now > that I've been exposed as an ignorant and naive blogger, I > might as well share these thoughts. I love this guy! ;-) > I have the feeling that a faster Python will never > materialise unless the CPython core developers make > performance a high priority. I understand that high > performance was never a goal in CPython development (and > Python language design!), but recent events (DropBox, > Google) might help to reconsider that standpoint. The fact that both Google *AND* DropBox are ignoring Python, must be devastating to GvR, however, for us at least, this emotional devastation may help to explain why Python is evolving in such a strange direction. > Here's a wild idea: consider Python 3 feature-complete. > Similar to how Python 3 cleaned up the unicode and other > warts of Python 2, Python 4 could clean up the performance > warts, but retaining the "soul" of the language. But that > last part is a diffucult one, because it would lead to > endless discussions of what would still be Python. So it's > better to define an official "TurboPython" subset. This > would also ensure backwards compatibility, but of course > complicate the implementation. I've been hinting at that for years, to no avail. > But who am I (or anyone) to suggest what the CPython core > developers should do? Do you write Python code? If so, then you have a right to both speak and to be heard. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
