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RustPython: A Python Interpreter Written in Rust

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196 points bovem | 2 comments | 02 Aug 24 15:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.461s | source
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upbeat_general ◴[03 Aug 24 15:36 UTC] No.41147186[source]▶
Does this have faster startup times than cpython?

Every time I want to rewrite a shell function in python, I always hesitate due to the slow startup.

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1. bdbdhxhdh ◴[04 Aug 24 08:27 UTC] No.41151966[source]▶
I curious why you would think so, since CPython is already written in C
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2. upbeat_general ◴[04 Aug 24 15:35 UTC] No.41154193[source]▶
Well CPython has a lot of backwards compatibility to deal with that RustPython doesn't, so "import subprocess" might result in very different behavior.