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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 summit looked at Cinder, which is a performance-oriented CPython fork that is used in production at I...
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.