By Serdar Yegulalp Many Python fans have longed for the language to adopt functional programming features. Now they can get those features without having to switch to a new Python implementation. Coconut, …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Q&A: Guido van Rossum on Python’s next steps
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•By Paul Krill There’s no doubt that Python, a 25-year-old open source, object-oriented dynamic language, has become a major tool for software developers in recent years. They love its programmer-friendliness, as well …read more Source:: OpenSource
Dropbox wants to speed up Python with Pyston 0.5
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•By Serdar Yegulalp After months of silence, the Pyston project — a Dropbox-sponsored initiative to create a high-performance, JIT-compiling Python runtime — has announced a new version. The bad news: Pyston 0.5 is …read more Source:: OpenSource
Python 3, Ruby, Rust, and JavaScript algorithms are now welcome on Algorithmia
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Algorithmia, a marketplace for building algorithms and monetizing them as APIs, has added support for four widely used languages: JavaScript, Python 3, Rust, and Ruby. When it originally launched …read more Source:: OpenSource
PyPy 5.1 puts Python’s pedal to the metal
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•By Serdar Yegulalp PyPy, the just-in-time optimizing compiler for Python, has been updated to 5.1, boasting even faster startup and optimization times. But CPython, the default Python interpreter written in C, is …read more Source:: OpenSource