After months of silence, the Pyston project — a Dropbox-sponsored initiative to create a high-performance, JIT-compiling Python runtime — has announced a new version. The bad news: Pyston 0.5 is ...

Dropbox will cease development on Pyston, but the source code will be available for those who want to continue hacking on JIT-powered Python Pyston, Dropbox’s project to create a faster Python runtime ...

How to write four million lines of Python: Lessons from Dropbox on using the programming language at scale Your email has been sent While Python is a hugely popular programming language it has ...

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Guido van Rossum, the creator of the hugely popular Python programming language, is leaving cloud file storage firm Dropbox and heading into retirement. That ends his six and half years with the ...

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