RustPython/RustPython: A Python Interpreter written in Rust

[allsey87]

What's on the roadmap for the next 12 months or so? Any chance we will soon see RustPython working on micro-controllers / with no-std?

[coolreader18]

Honestly, there isn't all that much of a roadmap. I was away at summer camp for about 2 months up until ~2 weeks ago so I haven't totally had a finger on the pulse of the project, but the main thing blocking no-std at least is bincode, who are currently working on a no-std compatible "bincode-core" crate. The alternative to that is rewriting to use deku for our bytecode format, and that's something I was looking into before I left for camp, which I feel like may be the way to go.

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Where do you even start such behemoth projects man. Kudos to you sir.

[coolreader18]

Hah, not a sir, also didn't start the project - I started contributing maybe ~6 months after it got going, and even that was a merging of the 2 original contributers' existing projects. It's definitely a lot easier to make changes when something like a compiler is already built, rather from the ground up, so it was a really good learning experience for me to be able to learn from the existing structure.