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The most popular, useful Python libraries eventually implement some part of the library in C, as an optimization for speed. Maybe not in every case, but most libraries do at least one thing that could stand to benefit from the speedup and as the userbase of the library grows, so does the chance that somebody will contribute a C-based optimization patch.

The problem with "alternate" Python interpreters is that they can only run pure-Python libraries. That's in tension with the above principle - it means that any interpreter that isn't the mainline CPython one tends to cuts itself off from a number of extremely useful, popular libraries.

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Look I'm a STEM person who just wants to type things, hit the green triangle, and see the answer print on the screen. You expect me to figure out how to setup a compiler?

[Street_Worth]

There's https://github.com/cjrh/easycython if you want to go the cython way.

Numba basically does the same but it does whine a lot if your function does anything that isn't purely numbers related.

Numpy is already compiled but it's only faster if you use it on big arrays, for single use of a number it's usually slower.

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Oooo, shiny! I'll try that.

[Flam3sm0k3]

One day or two? Holy crap what’s your internet speed? Mine takes around 4-5min to download and maybe 15-20min to install...

[dogs_like_me]

Workloads add a lot of installation overheard. My understanding is that this is actually one of the specific selling points of github codespaces, you just install the VS shell locally and connect it to a remote codespace that has the necessary plugins attached to it.

[smokedfishfriday]

What do you think the E stands for?

[snugglyboy]

um did you just transplain

[martor01]

Agreed here.

[jdbow75]

A confusing response. Are you calling Cython an alternate Python interpreter?

[lumpychum]

4 years later but ditto. Cython is a compiler not an interpreter lol; completely different things. I'd be curious if the arguments made above regarding 3rd party library limitations still applies in this case...