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SPy language

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2023-07-19 · latest 2026-06-23

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  1. …- Pyccel ( https://github.com/pyccel/pyccel ): Python extension language using accelerators - SPy ( https://github.com/spylang/spy ) is a variant of Python specifically designed to be statically compilable while retaining a lot of the…
    comment by dima-quant · 2026-06-23 · in Show HN: Nimic – Pure Python as a systems language with AOT compilation
  2. …and distancing themselves from them a bit. For example, this was discussed here recently: https://github.com/spylang/spy It has been obvious for a couple of decades that CPython is itself a Schelling point and that anything promising full…
    comment by zephen · 2026-05-12 · in If AI writes your code, why use Python?
  3. Spy ( https://github.com/spylang/spy ) is an early version of this kind of thing. I believe it compiles to C though, kinda like Nim. Actually speaking of Nim, that's probably the most mature language in this space, although it's less…
    comment by Hasnep · 2026-04-05 · in Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go
  4. …Principal Software Engineer at Anaconda. Still very early days but it seems promising to me. [1] https://github.com/spylang/spy
    comment by dobremeno · 2026-03-18 · in Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track
  5. How does this compare to the sPy project [1]? [1] - https://github.com/spylang/spy
    comment by digdugdirk · 2026-02-08 · in Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI
  6. https://github.com/spylang/spy
    comment by intalentive · 2025-11-05 · in SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python
  7. tldr; link to static python : https://github.com/spylang/spy
    comment by amai · 2025-08-11 · in Python performance myths and fairy tales
  8. Repository is https://github.com/spylang/spy/
    comment by stefanos82 · 2024-09-24 · in Spy (Static Python) lang: fast as C, Pythonic as Python
  9. Slides - https://4897a01d-e56f-47fa-814f-70c7c1e11730.pyscriptapps.co... Repo - https://github.com/spylang/spy
    comment by prollyjethi · 2023-07-19 · in Spy – a static Python to WASM compiler