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How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals, Armin Ronacher, Flask framework
Armin Ronacher, creator of Flask, explains how CPython's internals and C API leak into the language's semantics. Using examples like the complexity of the add operation, he shows why Python is hard to optimize or reimplement.
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Shows CPython internals lack a spec and hinder new runtimes.
“This talk shows how bad of shape it's really in.”Open the source comment