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by adsharma 100 days ago
Cython and all the libs you mention use the c-api, which is the #1 thing python needs to lose to be competitive.

I wish someone writes a stdlib without using it. My attempt from a few months ago in a repo under the py2many org.
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gf000 100 days ago
> Cython and all the libs you mention use the c-api, which is the #1 thing python needs to lose to be competitive.

Quite hard to lose the #1 reason people use the language for.

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adsharma 98 days ago
The #1 reason people use it is because it allows you to focus on the problem you're solving rather than the syntax, memory management or some other aspect.

Most people don't even know what C-API is or why it slows things down.

Compatibility is made into a bigger deal than it is. That's the COBOL argument.

I wish the python community focused more on why openclaw and opencode are getting written in typescript, not python.

Why aren't agents more efficient at translating python code into shippable end user binaries using fast interpreted -> compiled agentic loops and attempt memory safety only for binaries/libraries with a large distribution.

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