Programming languages: Faster Python project Pyston takes a big step forward
Summary
Modzelewski was an engineer at Dropbox, which was a major user of Python and hired the languages creator Guido van Rossum for five years from 2013 to improve its code. Anaconda has now hired Modzelewski and fellow lead developer Marius Wachtler who have been tasked with building the projects community of users, contributors, and maintainers to ensure its long-term sustainability. With Anaconda, the project will focus on improving compatibility with Pythons legion of packages that have helped make it dominant in data science and machine learning as well as bringing Pyston to more hardware. "The new Pyston 2.x series is a complete rewrite of the codebase from scratch, starting from a fork of CPython 3.8," Anaconda says in a blogpost detailing its plan to become a general-purpose accelerator of all Python applications. Anaconda co-founder Peter Wang told ZDNet recently that it was "incredibly awkward to use Python to build and distribute any applications that have actual graphical user interfaces."
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