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0 pointsFloegipoky9y ago0 comments

I'm confused because Jython runs on the JVM, but Go is a compiled language. Can you clarify?

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bb889y ago· 2 in thread

Jython is a python interpreter written in Java. Grumpy is a python transpiler that converts python to navtive go object code.

Edited to add: The difference is that Jython doesn't covert python to JVM bytecode.

What's the advantage of writing an interpreter? Go already has an excellent runtime (scheduler, GC, etc)--why should this project reimplement it?

The interpreter could still use that stuff.

One advantage of an interpreter in general is that one important use case for Python is interactive scripting, as data scientists do.

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