On Monday, March 16, 2020 at 7:17:17 AM UTC-4, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > In the "What's Next post > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/leo-editor/3dZK1_pjGcE/vL57PduhAgAJ> I > said: > > "As far as wasm [WebAssembly] goes, rust has a (temporary?) advantage over > python, because wasm doesn't yet support garbage collection." > > Well, what about writing the python interp in rust? No need for a gc ;-) > As so often happens, someone not only had that idea, but did something > about it. It's called RustPython > <https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython>. I might study the code, just > to see what real rust code looks like. Or not. > > Imo, RustPython is not likely to go anywhere, unless a company like Google > or Apple supports it. For Python's core devs, RustPython probably looks > like a fork. Having just emerged from the trauma of the Python 3 fork, my > guess is that they have no appetite for another. >
Like PyPy and Stackless, though the devs are usually trying to keep compatibility with them as they add new features. I wonder if there is a C++ to Rust converter. That would be the only thing that could event make it thinkable. BTW, Jython is a wonder. It's only up to 2.7 so far, though I think they are slowly working on a version 3. You can import any java library and use it in Python code, and you can write a Python module and call it from inside a Java program. The only hitch in using it from the command line, really, is that it takes a long time to start up. I used it to make a little index and search app with Lucene. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/23cb14d8-01fc-4903-a295-f6cd98da4a1e%40googlegroups.com.
