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		IanOzsvald on Feb 25, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pyston 0.3: Self-hosting Sufficiency HotPy is Mark Shannon's research project, he's not making a 'new better Python for the masses', he's using it to test his assumptions about ways CPython could be improved. Ask him about it if you bump into him at a python conference!

kasabali on Feb 25, 2015 [–]

Thanks, it's more clear now. I misunderstood Pyston's motives and thought it was just making Python faster rather than writing it from stratch.

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