thank you. What's the status of truffle? I often hear news from the project, but i never read anything about the scope of the project. Is is highly experimental? Are people using it in production? Is it intended to be used in production in the near future?
Also, if it's faster and the C-extension solved by the LLVM interpreter, what's holding it back from being used?
Truffle is a large active project working on multiple language fronts at the same time (JS, Ruby, R, C). There's a pretty long tail of things to do to go from research prototype to something people could use, but that is what we are working on at the moment. Twitter is experimenting with Graal as a Java compiler in production.
The C extension problem is solved in theory. We're now working on making it something a bit more substantial that the research implementation we have talked about previously.
quick question - the big focus of truffle seems to be js, ruby,R.
Even the github org does not have python - https://github.com/graalvm
your comment today was the first time I realized there was a Truffle port for Python, and is NOT maintained by the parent oracle org.
https://github.com/securesystemslab/zippy
Also, if it's faster and the C-extension solved by the LLVM interpreter, what's holding it back from being used?