pon: A Compiled Python Built in a Week, Measured Against Its Claims

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I came across pon , a project that sets out to be “the bun/v8 of Python”: a from-scratch native compiler and runtime for Python 3.14, written in Rust, with no interpreter and no bytecode. The pitch is ambitious enough to be worth taking seriously — and the repository is unusual in another way. It was built in about a week: 475 commits from a single author between June 30 and July 7,…

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