bratao

This is pretty bittersweet to see.

Python is my favorite language, but I'm honestly tired of having to rewrite performance bottlenecks in Cython or Rust all the time. When the Faster CPython project started with Microsoft's backing, I was really excited. Mark Shannon had that plan promising huge speedups across a few cycles, and while that clearly turned out to be much harder than anticipated, the team still kept pushing forward to deliver a real JIT.

Seeing all of that get bogged down in committee bureaucracy now is just frustrating.

I have a lot of respect for the core devs and I know maintaining CPython, and it is a time donation job. It isn't easy. But I feel that over-caution and red tape ends up discouraging serious contributions. They are setting an unreasonably high bar for something that would obviously help the entire ecosystem.

Just think about the sheer amount of electricity and compute power being wasted every single day running inefficient Python across millions of machines worldwide.

Python really deserves a proper JIT. I genuinely hope they reconsider this.

Finally a replacement for RocksDB / MyRocks. I want to move from MySQL to Postgres, but without a space optimized storage as the MySQL has in Percona, it is impossible to me.

I know this is a common trope here, and yeah, plenty of MBA-type CEOs are trash. But speaking as a founder/CEO of a small company, the quality gap between an average hire and top talent at the director level is night and day.

Proven talent comes with a massive price tag, but it's almost always worth it. The times I regretted going with the 2nd or 3rd place candidate because they were cheaper ended up setting us back by months.

The same logic applies to CEOs. Moving the needle for a massive company by even a few percent is worth billions. Just look at Lisa Su or Steve Jobs.

This could be controversial, but when hiring and I see anyone that has multiple parallel jobs, it is an instant reject. Maybe this could be it? This sentiment is shared by many other persons I talked, and come from bad experience in the past.

It is super strange that all last (3?) releases they keep comparing older models such as Opus-4.6.