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And none of these languages is less powerful than Lisp, lack Unicode support, or whatever, so this can't be the reason.
power of Python is in ecosystem of libraries, not only Python syntax. Without the ecosystem of libraries, I am afraid use cases for Codon will be very very limited. Because Python developers (just like Node) got used to thinking: Need to do X? Lets see if I can pip install library that does it. Ultimately, python is like super flexible glue between ecosystem of libraries that lets anyone build and prototype high qual…
If Codon becomes similar enough to Python, it will be trivial to port Python libs to it, thus opening Codon to the vast Python ecosystem.
Since Codon performs static type checking ahead of time, a few of Python's dynamic features are disallowed. For example, monkey patching classes at runtime (although Codon supports a form of this at compile time) or adding objects of different types to a collection. This seems like a very different language from Python if it won't let you do: [1, 'a string']
I want the opposite. Is there a project that compiles to python (either source or bytecode)? Sort of a graalvm for python?
Since Codon performs static type checking ahead of time, a few of Python's dynamic features are disallowed. For example, monkey patching classes at runtime (although Codon supports a form of this at compile time) or adding objects of different types to a collection. This seems like a very different language from Python if it won't let you do: [1, 'a string']
I have been using Python since 25 years, and never needed that one.
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I have been using Python since 25 years, and never needed that one.
In 25 years you’ve never once created a list with more than one type of object in it?
Who would create a language that only has ASCII strings in this day and age?
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Python is a language with several implementations (PyPy, CPython, JPython). Not all python programs work in all of those implementations. So, I think this might qualify as much as a python implementation as PyPy.
I don't think python without heterogenous lists and dictionaries is really python?
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I have been using Python since 25 years, and never needed that one.
In 25 years you’ve never once created a list with more than one type of object in it?