Python 3.15 | Hacker News

kept by eddie oct 16

The Hacker News post highlights community discussions surrounding Python 3.15's development progress, including anticipated performance improvements, syntax changes, and developer feedback shared in the comments section.

Computer programming, and friction as a learning activity
The author argues that personal friction in manual coding and teaching is essential for deep learning and enjoyment, and worries AI‑generated code removes that valuable struggle.
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Fable one-shotted a Rust rewrite of the TerminalTextEffects Python library in 11M tokens. Startup time went from 87ms to 2ms and rendering s
Fable rewrote the TerminalTextEffects Python library in Rust using 11M tokens, reducing startup time from 87ms to 2ms and boosting rendering speed 9.6x with zero dependencies in a 3MB executable.
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