Comment by t43562
4 hours ago
Perhaps if the money which was spent on the built-in JIT had been spent on PyPy we'd be somewhere.
PyPy wasn't great for me because its startup time interfered with the main usecase I wanted it for in one instance and in another there bugs that made it not quite compatible enough. Money could solve the bug issue.
On the other hand I did get pygame working with it at one point and that seemed like a nice scenario.
What would have been really nice is if the $1M/y in funding the PSF rejected due to ideological purity could have been reallocated to PyPy.