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What's the performance like compared to Lua? Since Lua is the standard here, this feels like nonstarter unless the performance is similar, even with the friendlier python syntax.

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to my mind the differences in syntax between python and lua are like two white, long-sleeved, button-up, collared shirts, but they have different buttons.

and also the buttons on the Lua shirt are all shifted by one

.. while the python shirt has a huge gap that shows a nipple, and if you try to cover that nipple you're going to fall over.

HAHA,good one!

The python shirt has a combo of buttons, zippers, Velcro, and drawstrings in different places and with a long history about why it's there and why it made sense at the time but no one would do it that way again.

Doesn't this apply to every mature and widely used language after a few years of evolution?

"There's more than one way to do it."

> In general, the current performance has not been specially optimized. I estimate that it is about 30% to 50% of the performance of CPython.

> Because stack-based virtual machine is used, the performance is hard to reach Lua, where the latter is register-based.

> With the optimizer in place, I think the performance of PkPy can reach 1-2 times that of CPython in the future.

https://pocketpy.dev/performance/

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