Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
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Re: Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
#2This looks pretty cool, know of any production-grade software using it? I remember reading about something like this being used for Docker Compose, can't recollect what exactly that was.
Re: Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
#3Trying to understand this project. Is this more than a python compiler?
Edit: Ok, now I see that the "Overview" button is hidden on mobile.
Re: Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
#4Trying to understand this project. Is this more than a python compiler? Edit: Ok, now I see that the "Overview" button is hidden on mobile.
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Re: Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
#5Trying to understand this project. Is this more than a python compiler? Edit: Ok, now I see that the "Overview" button is hidden on mobile.
So, from my reading of the "Overview" page, it compiles Python to C++ and then use native types as much as possible to make things run really fast.
Re: Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
#6> The stable release has full support for Python 3.5, including the new async and await functions. So recent releases can pronounce it as fully supported which was quite a feat.
Wow. That is amazing! Pyston only supports Python 2 and PyPy is working on it.
Nuitka looks very promising.
Re: Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
#7IMHO, this is a very important project as it makes up for one of the biggest shortcomings in the Python ecosystem - distribution of software. Distribution is clearly one of the reasons that Go is so popular. It would be great if we could take advantage of Python as a language and Python as an ecosystem while still being able to deploy as if it was a walk in the park.
Re: Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
#8IMHO, this is a very important project as it makes up for one of the biggest shortcomings in the Python ecosystem - distribution of software. Distribution is clearly one of the reasons that Go is so popular. It would be great if we could take advantage of Python as a language and Python as an ecosystem while still being able to deploy as if it was a walk in the park.
I find the way software is packaged in Go to be a terrible regression, but I'm more interested in why you think pip and venv's don't solve the problem for Python already?
Edit: I see from your reply that we're talking at cross purposes. I thought you meant source distribution, but you mean binary distribution to end users or deployment to production systems, and in that case I agree with you.
Re: Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
#9Looking at their future plan, can we say they are aiming to build something like RPython, but instead of a subset of Python support full Python language?
Re: Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
#10IMHO, this is a very important project as it makes up for one of the biggest shortcomings in the Python ecosystem - distribution of software. Distribution is clearly one of the reasons that Go is so popular. It would be great if we could take advantage of Python as a language and Python as an ecosystem while still being able to deploy as if it was a walk in the park.
I find the way software is packaged in Go to be a terrible regression, but I'm more interested in why you think pip and venv's don't solve the problem for Python already? Edit: I see from your reply that we're talking at cross purposes. I thought you meant source distribution, but you mean binary distribution to end users or deployment to production systems, and in that case I agree with you.
Being able to ship a self contained binary of your application is a very powerful concept, on which many seem to agree.
The way I see it, pip and virtualenv are not practical for deployment or distribution. You shouldn't have to download and install things during a production deployment. I even created a tool (https://github.com/objectified/vdist) to mitigate this problem, but it will always be a hack when doing it this way.