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Odd how you still see announcements of this nature if Anthropic's marketing is be believed.
Most maintainers don't have a stack of cash to throw at tokens.
https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss https://openai.com/form/codex-for-oss/
Odd how you still see announcements of this nature if Anthropic's marketing is be believed.
If anyone else is also barely aware and confused by the similar names, PyPI is the Python Package Index, which is up and maintained. PyPy is "A fast, compliant alternative implementation of Python." which doesn't have enough devs to release a version for 3.12[0]. [0]: https://github.com/orgs/pypy/discussions/5145
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Being three major versions behind CPython is definitely not a great sign for the long-term viability of it.
I'm not sure "major versions" is the most correct term here, but I think your point is spot on
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Most maintainers don't have a stack of cash to throw at tokens.
They don’t need to throw a stack of cash at them, Anthropic and OpenAI have programs for open source maintainers. https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss https://openai.com/form/codex-for-oss/
And for what's it worth, PyPy isn't even eligible for the Claude trial because they have a meager 1700 stars on GitHub.
Somewhat interesting that "volunteer project no longer under active development" got changed to "unmaintained".
much respect to the PyPy contributors, but it seems like a pretty fair assessment
PyPy is a fantastic achievement and deserves far more support than it gets. Microsoft’s “Faster CPython” team tried to make Python 5x faster but only achieved ~1.5x in four years - meanwhile PyPy has been running at over 5x faster for decades. On the other hand, I always got the impression that the main goal of PyPy is to be a research project (on meta-tracing, STM etc) rather than a replacement for CPython in produc…
PyPy’s alternative, CFFI, was not attractive enough for the big players to adopt. And HPy, another alternative that would have played better with Cython and friends came too late in the game, by that time PyPy development had lost momentum.
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much respect to the PyPy contributors, but it seems like a pretty fair assessment
9 months since the last major release definitely feels like a short time in which to declare time-of-death on an open source project