InfoWorld

Dropbox wants to speed up Python with Pyston 0.5

After months of silence, the Pyston project — a Dropbox-sponsored initiative to create a high-performance, JIT-compiling Python runtime — has announced a new version. The bad news: Pyston 0.5 is ...
InfoWorld

Dropbox pulls the plug on faster Python project

Dropbox will cease development on Pyston, but the source code will be available for those who want to continue hacking on JIT-powered Python Pyston, Dropbox’s project to create a faster Python runtime ...
TechRepublic

How to write four million lines of Python: Lessons from Dropbox on using the programming language at scale

How to write four million lines of Python: Lessons from Dropbox on using the programming language at scale Your email has been sent While Python is a hugely popular programming language it has ...
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Dropbox Picks Up Another Major Hire: Google Engineer, Python Creator

Guido van Rossum, the creator of the Python programming language and a top Google software engineer for the past seven years, on Friday announced he was leaving Google for Dropbox. The move marks ...