I first learned about Codon by reading an article in MIT's campus news magazine [1] about a compiler for Python. The article's author, Rachel Gordon, stressed that Codon can compile Python scripts into native code that is as fast, and sometimes faster, than hand-crafted code in C/C++. But quotes from Ariya Shajii, one of Codon’s two developers, mentioned that there were also limitations, in that s
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