Hi John. Let me summarize your long post how I understood it. "You guys should bet everything on platform <X> that both does not need PyPy and expressed no real interest. The reason why is because PyPy is not growing fast enough and we need a niche market. On top of that we should answer a lot of unanswered questions, like memory and warmup requirements on embedded devices".
So, I think you're wrong in very many regards here. I think we should try to excel at providing a kick ass Python VM, but also I have seriously no say in what people work on (except me). We already have some niche markets, notably people who are willing to invest R&D and need serious power (but are unable or unwilling to use C or C++ for that). You just don't know about it, because those are typically not people writing blog posts. Having a dedicated web stack is another good step and we'll eventuall get there. I don't know why you think this particular niche market is better than any other, but it really does not matter all that much. There is no way you can convince people to do something else in their volunteer time than what they already feel like doing. Things you can do if you're interested: * do the work yourself * work with parallela project to have a first-class pypy support if they care about performance * spark commercial interest however, trying to convince volunteers that they should do what you think they should do is not really one of the helpful things you can be doing. Cheers, fijal _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
