[oivey]

It’s getting faster but not C fast. Its semantics mean it basically never will. You’ll always need C extensions.

[markkitti]

Using Cython via pure Python mode seems pretty compelling if you all you need is compilation. Compilability is just the beginning though.

[oivey]

Cython is pretty nice, especially for wrappers around C. Julia’s ccall is honestly even better.

Numba is also really nice, and for just compiling against arrays I like it better than Cython. Neither help if you need data structures or abstractions, though.