alt Hacker NewsIsn't rpython doing that, allowing changes on startup and then it's basically statically typed? Does it still exist? Was it ever production ready? I only once read a paper about it decades ago.
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mattclarkdotnet • today at 4:03 AM
RPython is great, but it changes semantics in all sorts of ways. No sets for example. WTF? The native Set type is one of the best features of Python. Tuples also get mangled in RPython.
It exists in the sense that PyPy exists.
As far as I can tell, it only ever existed to make PyPy possible, and was only defined/specified in terms of PyPy's needs.