On Monday, 24 February 2014 at 10:21:52 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 19:53 +0000, bearophile wrote:
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Unfortunately ShedSkin is now essentially dead. And Julia
could replace Python in some usages, because of its
performance.
I have it on good authority, i.e. from a person writing a book
who has
the ShedSkin author as a reviewer, that ShedSkin never took
off. It is
not dead. This same author may pick up and run with ShedSkin
over the
summer. Of course there is also Pythran.
Same author confirms that there is a lot of leaving Java for
Python, not
to mention IPython now connects to Julia as well as SciPy.
Definitely an ideal time for D to have a high profile as a
computational
language that is easy to program with and connects easily to
Python.
ShedSkin never took off but I benched it a few years ago and
psyco was just as fast and was much easier to use. It seems to me
that the make-python-go-fast community are mainly focussing on
pypy which to me is much more promising. Converting python to C++
(like shedskin does) seems doomed to me, given the dynamic
typing, JIT seems far better suited.
