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[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Python's core implementation is in C though. It's just a fancy way to call C libraries.

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[–] officialdakari@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's interesting that, with Python, the reference implementation is the implementation


yeah there's Jython but really, Python means both the language and a particular interpreter.

Many compiled languages aren't this way at all


C compilers come from Intel, Microsoft, GNU, LLVM, among others. And even some scripting languages have this diversity


there are multiple JavaScript implementations, for example, and JS is...weird, yes, but afaik can be faster than Python in many cases.

I don't know what my point is exactly, but Python a) is sloooow, and b) doesn't really have competition of interpreters. Which is interesting, at least, to me.

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