alt Hacker NewsDon't forget that there was a Google attempt at making a faster Python - Unladen Swallow. It got lots of PR but never merged with mainline CPython (wikipedia says a dev branch was released).
Don't forget that there was a Google attempt at making a faster Python - Unladen Swallow. It got lots of PR but never merged with mainline CPython (wikipedia says a dev branch was released).
Unladen Swallow got a lot of hype but was only a very small project. IIRC the only people working on it were two interns.
V8 was a much higher priority - Google hired many of the world’s best VM engineers to develop it.