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It is happening: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas

It seems to indicate a 30% performance boost?

That would be a step into the right direction.

6 more 30% improvements and it is on par with PHP.

It will yield a small speedup (< 50%) at best, probably for selected benchmarks that will be widely promoted.

Microsoft is misallocating its resources. The scientific ecosystem should be ported to .NET, with first class support for F#.

They already try it like 2/3 times and it didnt take off so why should it be different today?

Everytime they did it, it was half baked at best. Scientific libraries need driver support, Microsoft always takes the happy path and ignores all the other hardware permutations. If you are not running Intel/Nvidia in a Win32 environment you are out of luck. WSL2, ARM, AMD, etc. don't have much synergy in terms of product support.

.NET would be the perfect ecosystem. And for those who love their dynamic there is support for that too.

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