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by hwpythonner 410 days ago
When I first started PyXL, this kind of vision was exactly on my mind.

Maybe not AWS Lambda specifically, but definitely server-side acceleration — especially for machine learning feature generation, backend control logic, and anywhere pure Python becomes a bottleneck.

It could definitely get there — but it would require building a full-scale deployment model and much broader library and dynamic feature support.

That said, the underlying potential is absolutely there.
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petra 410 days ago
This sounds brilliant.

What's missing so you could create a demo for vc's or the relevant companies , proving the potential of this as competitive server-class core ?

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hwpythonner 410 days ago
Good question!

PyXL today is aimed more at embedded and real-time systems.

For server-class use, I'd need to mature heap management, add basic concurrency, a simple network stack, and gather real-world benchmarks (like requests/sec).

That said, I wouldn’t try to fully replicate CPython for servers — that's a very competitive space with a huge surface area.

I'd rather focus on specific use cases where deterministic, low-latency Python execution could offer a real advantage — like real-time data preprocessing or lightweight event-driven backends.

When I originally started this project, I was actually thinking about machine learning feature generation workloads — pure Python code (branches, loops, dynamic types) without heavy SIMD needs. PyXL is very well suited for that kind of structured, control-flow-heavy workload.

If I wanted to pitch PyXL to VCs, I wouldn’t aim for general-purpose servers right away. I'd first find a specific, focused use case where PyXL's strengths matter, and iterate on that to prove value before expanding more broadly.

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noosphr 410 days ago
I need to bit bang the RHS2116 at 25MHz: https://intantech.com/files/Intan_RHS2116_datasheet.pdf

Right now I'm doing this with a dsl with an fpga talking to a computer.

Does your python implementation let you run at speeds like that?

If yes, is there any overhead left for dsp - preferably fp based?

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