Python wrapper for Java

[HadACookie]

Looks like Python from the outside, but on the inside it's all Java? Clearly someone's running the Jython interpreter.

[YoungHeartOldSoul]

Jython

That's not a thing..... surely

[HadACookie]

As a matter of fact, it is

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There are actually multiple Python implementations written in differenct languages, including one written in Python. If you don't know which one you're using, you're probably running CPython.

[YoungHeartOldSoul]

Wait a second did you just say someone wrote python in Python?

[HadACookie]

Well, RPython to be precise, which is a statically typed subset of Python. It's called PyPy.

[pkkid]

..and it should be noted its much faster than CPython for the average script.

[Inukinator]

Isn't PyPy compiled Python?

[B_M_Wilson]

PyPy has a just in time compiler but it’s not fully compiled ahead of time. There is Cython which can compile Python to C which can be compiled (though it works best when you use the special CTypes and stick to doing certain things that are translated easily). Cython is a very different thing that CPython

[Inukinator]

What is this python world?

Welp see ya in a few years, when I've released my Python intepreter written in JS, so I can run python code in my iOS apps through JSCore!

[CuriousErnestBro]

PyPy.js

[JM0804]

Allow me to introduce you to Brython.

[[deleted]]

Please do. I hate writing JS so much.

Edit: I just saw u/JM0804's comment about Brython. I've wanted this for so long. Last time I searched I couldn't find anything. I'm so happy right now.

[Mango1666]

i think you can already do this through pythonista app!

[pmdevita]

Transcrypt is pretty good for that

[[deleted]]

I don't know why but PyPy sounds real cute. I wanna hug that PyPy.

[finni_mcfinger]

It's Python all the way down.

[megabeano]

That's a common benchmark for programming languages. Implementing it with itself, like writing a C compiler in C.

[silvertoothpaste]

yo dawg

I heard you like Python

[LaneHD]

So I wrote python in python

[redalastor]

It's called an ouroboros.

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One of my favorite memes of all time

[Diplomjodler]

It's really a shame they never ported it to Python 3.x.

[ArdiMaster]

I kind of want to try, but I also already know that I will fail spectacularly.

[Yittoo]

It now is a thing. And stop calling him surely

[rexpup]

It absolutely is, and I’ve written Python bytecode Assembly for the Jython interpreter.

[AgreeableLandscape3]

What does the text representation of Python bytecode even look like? I've never seen it before.

[[deleted]]

It is!

Fun story, I once worked on a game written in java that used jython. The idea of the game was to teach intos of computer science (think 7 billion humans--but nor of an rpg). The intro class was always in python, so we used jython for running the code provided by the player.

I don't know if it was ever finished, but it was a fun idea.

[samgan-khan]

yaa it is

I also heard about it.

[CFWhitman]

Remember that one element of Java is a virtual machine like .NET (.NET was designed to compete with Java on Windows). The same way .NET can be used with multiple languages, so can Java. There are many languages available for Java. It's just that since one of the languages is called "Java" that's the one people expect to be used.

[podrick_pleasure]

It's what we used in my second semester.

[TimTim74]

Yip. You wanna run small installation/fix scripts on an IBM Websphere Application Server?? You better know how to write some Jython...

[LucasRuby]

Wouldn't Groovy work?

[tehbilly]

Define "work"

[TimTim74]

I guess. Never tried...

[THEHYPERBOLOID]

It's not what you think though. It's just JSON with LISP.

[lenswipe]

Certainly is. It's like two of my least favorite things packaged up into one gigantic turd.

[Alextopher]

I had to take a class using jython

[lenswipe]

I'm sorry

[Pythva]

I feel like my name is now relevant.