[weberc2]

This is a cool project and I like your point about resetting expectations wrt performance. I work in an all-Python shop and it’s maddening that people are relatively okay with builds (mostly installing dependencies) in the tens of minutes, CLIs that take ten seconds to print —help, and requests that take tens of seconds at the median and timeout at p95, not to mention at least 5x more spend on our cloud bill.

With something like Go, it would take us a little up front effort to learn the language and we would easily get a 1-2 order of magnitude improvement in most of these metrics (and any productivity difference is well within the margin for error). This is our shop, but it’s also a microcosm of the broader Python community (e.g., takes half an hour to resolve dependencies for medium sized projects). It would be really cool if the broader community would rally around PyPy and improve its support or if CPython would move be willing to concede some backwards compatibility on its extensions interface in order to allow for more optimizations.