- The pure python repl started off in PyPy, although a lot of work was done to make it ready for prime time by the COython core devs
- The lessons from HPy are slowly making their way into CPython, see https://github.com/py-ni
- There were many fruitful interactions in fixing subtle bugs in CPython that stemmed from testing the stdlib on an alternative implementation
I really like PyPy’s approach of using a Python dialect (RPython) as the implementation language, instead of C. From a conceptual perspective, it is much more elegant. And there are other C-like Python dialects now too - Cython, mypy’s mypyc. It would be a shame if PyPy dies.
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