Originally published on the HPy blog.
HPy 0.0.2 is out! This is the first version which is officially released and made available on PyPI.
The major highlight of this release is that it is supported by three different Python implementations: CPython, PyPy and GraalPython.
Originally published on the HPy blog.
Yesterday I had the privilege to give a talk about HPy (sildes) at the Python Language Summit 2021.
The organizers of the summit will soon publish a full report about the event (edit: now available here), but for the HPy-specific part, we got generally good feedback. Someone has a few concerns that if CPython is to change the API, HPy might not be going far enough. Others said that Python shouldn't wait for the "perfect" API if HPy can be the "good" one that helps it evolve.
Everyone was open to have HPy-compatible wheels on PyPI, once the HPy Universal ABI stays relatively stable. Many people suggested that we should really write a PEP to propose HPy as a "semi-official" API for Python.
Originally published on the HPy blog.
HPy has been around for a while now. The initial discussion started during EuroPython 2019, in the good old times when we could still go to conferences and have real-life meetings. Since then, HPy progressed a lot from the point of view of the actual code, but we have been a bit too silent w.r.t. communicating what we are doing to the external world and to the broader Python community. Hopefully, now that this blog is online we will do a better job at periodically communicating the status of HPy, so make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed.