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I would use a statically-typed Python that you can compile into a binary for better performance. Step 1: Develop fast in regular Python. Step 2: Add type annotations and build.

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You're in luck!

https://github.com/mypyc/mypyc

Wow those are pretty chunky improvements over vanilla

AFAICT this is dead (no updates in four years) and "alpha software...only recommended for production use cases with careful testing, and if you are willing to contribute fixes or to work around issues you will encounter." Unfortunate, because it's pretty cool.

the repo says the code is in the mypy repo and it looks like it is maintained in there. so I think it has had updates the last four years?

Yeah, mypy uses it themselves for their releases. I think they get 5x speedups empirically

Never mind performance, a python application that you can actually ship as a self-contained unit would be a major step forwards.

Mojo from Modular?

I've not checked it out enough yet, and it's early days for it anyway.

Just saying it may be worth keeping an eye on.

I've seen some videos of Chris Lattner talking about it.

https://www.modular.com/mojo

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=mojo

Looks interesting. Their “magic” package manager scares me though. Not excited to curl | bash something with strong opinions about my local python setup

curl -ssL https://magic.modular.com/deb11637-c8c3-4f76-9195-85af25ef2e... | bash

I wonder why many groups are doing the "curl pipe to bash" thing these days.

I have been seeing this pattern for some years now, and also seen criticism of it.

do they not care about security, or is it not a security issue? conditionally or unconditionally, that is?

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