Language Summit News Today

A series of blog posts from the 2023 Python Language Summit has been posted; topics covered include the C API, the global interpreter lock, the standard library, and a talk on burnout from Guido van Rossum:

Over the last month or so, there has been a good bit of news surrounding the idea of increasing the performance of the CPython interpreter. At the 2021 Python Language Summit in mid-May, Guido van Rossum announced that he and a small team are being funded by Microsoft to work with the community on getting performance improvements upstream into the interpreter—crucially, without breaking the C API so that the ecosystem of Python extensions (e.g. NumPy) continue to work. Another talk at the s...

Western Carolina University hosted the 2023 Cherokee Language Summit on March 30-31, to discuss Cherokee language preservation and create new opportunities for Cherokee youth.

Here's why some popular features found in other languages—including static typing, multiline lambdas, and native JIT compilation—are a no-go for Python, at least for now.

Here's why some popular features found in other languages—including static typing, multiline lambdas, and native JIT compilation—are a no-go for Python, at least for now.

Exciting developments in the next Python version are being observed while a score of bug fixes reach the most widely used Python builds

Incremental improvements are on the way that promise to speed up Python by a factor of 2x to 5x, and remain compatible with existing code.

KTSimage / Getty Images At the Python Language Summit held at PyCon 2021 this week, Python language creator Guido van Rossum unveiled near-term and long-term plans for making Python faster—anywhere from two to five times faster, and possibly more. The Python language already has many ways to run faster, from alternate runtimes like PyPy to wrapping modules written in C/C++. But almost none of these methods involves speeding up CPython itself—the reference implementation of P...

I got bored sitting at home while retired ... I chose to go back to my roots Tim Anderson Thu 13 May 2021 // 16:05 UTC Share Copy Language Summit Python creator Guido van Rossum this week told attendees at the Language Summit that he hopes to double performance in version 3.11. The programming language is relatively slow in its default CPython implementation, though there are many ways to make it faster including performance-oriented alternatives like PyPy. Historically ...