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mattip commented on The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source heise.de/en/news/Goodbye-... · Posted by u/doener

GnarfGnarf · 2 months ago

I'm a Windows/macOS developer, but I strongly feel that all national governments need to convert to Linux, for strategic sovereignty. I'm sure Microsoft, under orders from the U.S. government, could disable all computers in any country or organization, at the flick of a switch.

Imagine how Open Source Software could improve if a consortium of nations put their money and resources into commissioning bug fixes and enhancements, which would be of collective benefit.

Apart from a few niche cases, the needs of most government bureaucracies would be well served by currently available OSS word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics software.

mattip · 2 months ago

> Imagine how Open Source Software could improve if a consortium of nations put their money and resources into commissioning bug fixes and enhancements, which would be of collective benefit.

This is the business model of Quansight Labs, whose employees help maintain much of the scientific python stack. Mostly tech companies, not governments, sponsoring the work

mattip commented on Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it? blog.miguelgrinberg.com/p... · Posted by u/pjmlp

natdempk · 4 months ago

Well, they added an experimental JIT so that is one step closer to PyPy? Though would assume the trajectory is build a new JIT vs. merge in PyPy, but hopefully people learned a lot from PyPy.

mattip · 4 months ago

There is some information transfer happening. Antonio Cuni was at the latest Coython developer sprint and shared some insights from PyPy https://antocuni.eu/2025/09/24/tracing-jits-in-the-real-worl...

mattip commented on PyPy v7.3.18 Release pypy.org/posts/2025/02/py... · Posted by u/mattip

mattip · a year ago

PyPy v7.3.18: release of python 2.7, 3.10 and 3.11 beta

mattip commented on Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill drew.silcock.dev/blog/eve... · Posted by u/chmaynard

sevensor · a year ago

> those that bother with PyPy

Which itself needed to be compiled from source the first time I tried it. All the hours of Mandelbrot were worth the spectacular speedup.

mattip · a year ago

There are portable downloads of PyPy here https://pypy.org/download.html

mattip commented on PyPy v7.3.17 Release pypy.org/posts/2024/08/py... · Posted by u/unripe_syntax

mattip · a year ago

That’s my post. Happy to answer any questions

mattip commented on PyCon US 2024 Recap katherinemichel.github.io... · Posted by u/nmstoker

rishab_kokate · 2 years ago

Hi, this was such a delightful post to read. Im currently a comp sci college student and I had no clue there was even an event called pycon lol. But reading your blog makes me think it was so much fun. Quick question, is there a criteria to attend the event such as part of a specific company or organization? Or is it for anyone who uses python?

mattip · 2 years ago

Anyone can attend.

mattip commented on Maybe This Is Too Cool radarblog.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/rainhacker

robertlagrant · 2 years ago

I think this looks bad, but it's got to do more than look bad. Is a rock concert a drop in the bucket compared to the savings they want, or are they genuinely comparable?

mattip · 2 years ago

I think part of the point is that it doesn’t matter. You can’t preach “frugality” and @we all need to pitch in” and then use private jets and rock concerts for the few at the top. It is hypocritical.

mattip commented on PyPy v7.3.16 pypy.org/posts/2024/04/py... · Posted by u/lumpa

brian_herman · 2 years ago

Why do they have 3.9 and 3.10 is it their policy to have two previous versions for every release?

mattip · 2 years ago

We try to keep around useful versions of Python3, based on what wheels packagers make available. NumPy<2 provides PyPy3.9 wheels, and we have PyPy3.10 ready. Now that NumPy has moved to PyPy3.10 wheels, we will probably drop 3.9. Help is needed to move forward to 3.11/3.12.