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Congratulations on the launch and work so far! This is indeed very interesting. I believe a language like this is necessary for future progress. I have also been impressed with Jul…

This is a very good point. You must support AOT compilation if you are going to have a general purpose system. This was clear when Julia came out and I interacted with core develop…

There is a branch of the 3.9 release that removed the GIL created by Sam Gross that you can read about here: https://gavincyi.github.io/2022-10-03-does-sam-gross-nogil-c... There i…

Thank you for stepping up and taking this seriously and quickly helping to restore the SymPy Documentation to the internet.

I'm sorry about triggering you. I can see your point. I did not mean to focus attention away from what happened and how to avoid it. I am sincerely interested in seeing if the Hack…

Thanks for showing up here and replying. I can understand the net being cast too wide for a real problem you are trying to solve. It does have real consequences for already under-r…

This is related to the idea of EPython that we are working on (as we have funding): https://github.com/epython-dev/epython It currently emits Cython for the C-backend (and PyIodide…

This author misses the point that the first problem a business faces is how to get customers and how to please them. Getting customers is the number one priority -- perfect archite…

I think this is true. I have used the Python C-API heavily having started SciPy and NumPy and Numba. I have a pre-alpha plan for addressing the C-API by introducing EPython (a type…

I didn’t read the entire thread of previous discussion. The referenced article is consistent with the work of Thomas Metzinger who wrote a very accessible book called “The Ego Tunn…

This is about creating a standard for array computing in Python which has been around for more than 20 years. NumPy (which has been a de facto standard) has been around for 14 year…

I agree that interfaces like Datasette are a fantastic idea. But, it's not the same thing. Think of this more like the SQL standard. What would you do if SQL did not exist and ther…

Bias warning --- I'm part of the group doing this work. For an end-user, your arguments are fine. A single developer or team can indeed use whatever tool they want and adapt their …

I didn't perceive it to be an argument for anything specific. I did not get the sense the author is suggesting either lifting restrictions or not. I saw it as more of a piece tryin…

Travis Oliphant, here. OpenTeams is much bigger than me, but I have been part of the early team putting energy into the effort. Henry has captured some of the personal motivations …

I was also there on Thursday and agree. The talks were actually observing that cloud giants do alter the business landscape for open-source, but there are always innovations and po…

Thank you for doing this. This is a great idea. If every company that used open source committed to supporting the projects they depend on with this kind of approach, it would solv…

I believe it is true that you can make more money selling non-free software (some of the profits from which should always be used to make free software). You can generate money onl…

Original NumPy author here. I have a lot to say on this topic, given that it has literally consumed my life over the past 20 years. You can go here for some thoughts about some of …

Yes, I agree. I would love to see parts of what is in Pandas actually supported better in NumPy.

No. I'm not aware of this happening. NumPy built on Numeric which was primarily written by Jim Hugunin while he was a grad student at MIT. While I was a professor at BYU, I wrote t…

Continuum co-founder here and previous NumPy developer. We received funding for Bokeh and also explorations around scalable "NumPy-like" work. The efforts around Blaze produced Num…

I don't think this is very true. There hasn't been much private funding for NumPy. People working at private companies have worked sometimes on NumPy but very rarely as part of the…