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Shed Skin is a restricted-Python-to-C++ transpiler. Read the introduction below to learn about the restrictions.

18 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 3 stories, 15 comments · first 2015-08-10 · latest 2026-10-06

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  1. Not as fast as https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin
    comment by actionfromafar · 2026-10-06 · in How Fast is Python 3.15?
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    Shed Skin restricted-Python-to-C++ transpiler 0.9.13
    story by srepmub · 2026-09-03 · 1 comment
  3. Similar idea as Shedskin which is a (large subset of) Python to C++ transpiler https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin
    comment by actionfromafar · 2026-06-25 · in Show HN: Nimic – Pure Python as a systems language with AOT compilation
  4. shedskin isn't actively developed ... or at least it wasn't for like 10 years https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin/graphs/contributors
    comment by almostgotcaught · 2025-07-11 · in Jank is C++
  5. …C++ products. Actually another thing too, Shedskin is Open Source under GPLv3. (Like GCC.) 1: https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin/
    comment by actionfromafar · 2024-09-18 · in A high-performance, zero-overhead, extensible Python compiler using LLVM
  6. …about 15 times faster on my system (not 15%.. 15 times!). For more information about the release: https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin/releases/tag/v0.9.9 If you think this is a cool project, please consider helping out. There is always…
    comment by srepmub · 2024-07-06 · in Shed Skin restricted-Python-to-C++-compiler 0.9.9
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    Shed Skin restricted-Python-to-C++-compiler 0.9.9
    story by srepmub · 2024-07-06 · 3 comments
  8. …about the release: http://blogfarts.blogspot.com/2022/12/shed-skin-restricted-p... Project homepage: http://github.com/shedskin/shedskin
    comment by srepmub · 2022-12-30 · in Shed Skin restricted-Python-to-C++-compiler 0.9.6
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    Shed Skin restricted-Python-to-C++-compiler 0.9.6
    story by srepmub · 2022-12-30 · 4 comments
  10. …promising but dead, has suddenly had a bunch of commits, quickly gaining Python 3 compatibility. 0: https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin
    comment by actionfromafar · 2022-12-09 · in All in with Nuitka
  11. How does it compare to ShedSkin (other than supporting more recent versions of Python)? https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin
    comment by dataflow · 2022-07-29 · in Omyyyy/pycom: A Python compiler, down to native code, using C++
  12. Anything you can learn or use from Shedskin? https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin
    comment by sitkack · 2022-05-17 · in OpenAI Codex Python to C++ Code Generator
  13. …project owner, are you aware of https://chocopy.org/ ? You might want to also look at Shedskin, https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin which converts implicitly typed Python programs to C++
    comment by sitkack · 2020-08-24 · in Show HN: Mys – an attempt to create a statically typed Python-like language
  14. Not to answer your question but if you want C / C++, have a look at Shedskin https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin
    comment by emmelaich · 2018-05-18 · in Show HN: Cannoli – A compiler for a subset of Python written in Rust
  15. …useful. [1] https://crystal-lang.org/ http://groovy-lang.org/releasenotes/groovy-2.0.html [2] https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin https://github.com/codeblazer-io/blazescript https://github.com/serge-sans-paille/pythran
    comment by fuzzythinker · 2016-10-13 · in Static types in Python
  16. Compare to https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin which does whole program type flow analysis. Shedskin offers excellent performance on numerical workloads.
    comment by sitkack · 2016-08-29 · in Pythran: a Python to C++ compiler with a focus on scientific computing
  17. As opposed to shipping LUA with C extensions? Also, there are things like shedskin: https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin - you don't even have to ship python. Or micropython: https://github.com/micropython/micropython with the code…
    comment by viraptor · 2016-01-26 · in From Python to Lua: Why We Switched
  18. …CPython runtime. So no, numba is not an other way to do that. shedskin[0] might be though. [0] https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin/
    comment by masklinn · 2015-08-10 · in Run Python Bytecode in Your Browser