[pmontra]

I googled 'codon and django' and unsurprisingly found a lot of bioinformatic stuff. I tried to add language and compiler to no avail. The only query that got results was codon python compiler. Overall I think it's a name that clashes with a lot of DNA/RNA research.

While searching I found a paper from 2021 about Codon [1]. The author is not in the About page of Exaloop [2] but the supervisor of that thesis is there. From the "Future Work" section:

> we plan to add union types and inheritance. On the IR side [Intermediate Representation], we hope to develop additional builtin transformations and analyses, all the while expanding the reach of existing passes. As far as library support, we plan to port existing high-performance Python libraries like NumPy [...] to Codon; this will allow Codon to become a drop-in replacement for Python in many domains.

Maybe they already did.

[1] Codon: A Framework for Pythonic Domain-Specific Languages by Gabriel L. Ramirez https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/139336/Ramire...

[2] https://exaloop.io/about.html

[inetknght]

Having worked in the DNA analysis space and admittedly haven't read the article... my first thought was that Codon was some python library for DNA stuffs that gets compiled via LLVM for performance.