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"Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"

https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/17643
67•networked•4h ago

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aragilar•1h ago
Somewhat interesting that "volunteer project no longer under active development" got changed to "unmaintained".
killingtime74•1h ago
What euphemism do you prefer then...
kev009•1h ago
Undermaintained might be more suited since it does have life but doesn't appear commercially healthy nor apparently relevant to other communities.
maxloh•1h ago
For context, they have 2 to 4 commits per month since October [1]. The last release was July 2025 [2].

[1]: https://github.com/pypy/pypy/commits/main/

[2]: https://github.com/pypy/pypy/tags

didip•1h ago
wow, that would be a big shame. I hope many of the useful learnings are already ported to CPython.
mkl•1h ago
Almost none of it will have been ported to CPython, as it's a completely different approach.
skissane•13m ago
I really like PyPy’s approach of using a Python dialect (RPython) as the implementation language, instead of C. From a conceptual perspective, it is much more elegant. And there are other C-like Python dialects now too - Cython, mypy’s mypyc. It would be a shame if PyPy dies.
the_jeremy•1h ago
If anyone else is also barely aware and confused by the similar names, PyPI is the Python Package Index, which is up and maintained. PyPy is "A fast, compliant alternative implementation of Python." which doesn't have enough devs to release a version for 3.12[0].

[0]: https://github.com/orgs/pypy/discussions/5145

Muhammad523•1h ago
Thanks. I knew this already but keep forgetting and getting confused
with•59m ago
Thanks, I also saw this as PyPI and was confused, lol
chii•3m ago
now somebody just needs to make a PiPy for the raspberry pi
blahgeek•6m ago
Reminds me of Cython vs CPython
doctorpangloss•59m ago
knowing pypy has good implementations of a lot of behavior it helped me fix multiprocessing in Maya's python interpreter, fixing stuff like torch running inside of Maya.

it's too bad. it is a great project for a million little use cases.

Imustaskforhelp•30m ago
@kvinogradov (Open source endowment), I am (Pinging?) you because I think that you may be of help as I remember you stating that within the Open source endowment and the approach of how & which open source projects are better funded[0]

And I think that PyPy might be of interest to the Fund for sponsoring given its close to unmaintained. PyPy is really great in general speeding up Python[1] by magnitudes of order.

Maybe the fund could be of help in order to help paying the maintainer who are underfunded which lead to the situation being unmaintained in the first place. Pinging you because I am interested to hear your response and hopefully, see PyPy having better funding model for its underfunded maintainers.

[0]: https://endowment.dev/about/#model

[1]: https://benjdd.com/languages2/ (Refer to PyPY and Python difference being ~15x)

skissane•11m ago
> @kvinogradov (Open source endowment), I am (Pinging?) you

unfortunately, @-pinging does not work on this site, it does nothing to notify anyone. If you want to get a specific person’s attention, use off-site communication mechanisms

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