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by westurner 1702 days ago
"PEP 3146 -- Merging Unladen Swallow into CPython" > Future Work (2010) https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/#future-work

Perhaps Google/Grumpy could be updated to compile Python 3.x+ to Go with e.g. the RustPython version of the CPython Python Standard Library modules?

"Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard" (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18040664

Today, conda-forge compiles CPython to relocatable platform+architecture-specific binaries with LLVM. https://github.com/conda-forge/python-feedstock/blob/master/...

conda-forge also compiles PyPy Python to relocatable platform+architecture-specific binaries with LLVM. conda-forge/pypy3.6-feedstock (3.7) https://github.com/conda-forge/pypy3.6-feedstock/blob/master...

https://github.com/conda-forge/pypy-meta-feedstock/blob/mast... :

> summary: Metapackage to select pypy as python implementation

Pyodide (JupyterLite) compiles CPython to WASM (or LLVM IR?) with LLVM/emscripten IIRC. Hopefully there's a clear way to implement the new GIL-less multithreading support with Web Workers in WASM, too?

The https://rapids.ai/ org has a bunch a fast Python for HPC and Cloud; with Dask and pick a scheduler. Less process overhead and less need for interprocess locking of memory handles that transgress contexts due to a new GIL removal approach would be even faster than debuggable one process per core Python.

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Grumpy is unmaintained.There is similar work (py2many) that transpiles python3 to 8 different languages.

The approach focuses on functional programming, does away with extensions completely.

For that approach to be successful, a pure python implementation of stdlib in the transpileable subset of python 3 would be super helpful.