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0 pointschubot11y ago0 comments

OK interesting, it actually appears to be written in RPython, not full Python:

https://github.com/jneen/tulip/blob/master/tulip/libedit.py

(RPython is the "static" subset of Python used to bootstrap PyPy)

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maxerickson11y ago

They have moved towards treating RPython as a framework:

http://rpython.readthedocs.org/

jneen11y ago

Yeah, it's basically a toolkit for building jitted languages. Basically the easiest way to get a tracing jit these days. So it'll be a self-hosting jit similar to pypy or pixie.

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