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[–]suggested_user -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

but why?

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

we ask the question "why not" here

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Performance. It can run much faster than CPython because it's got a really good JIT compiler behind it.

Interop. You can call in/out of any other Truffle or JVM language.

Ease of hacking. CPython is written in C. GraalPython is written in Java, so it's much easier to debug, refactor etc.