If Python community and CPython developers were more open to PyPy, many things could be changed. A group of people talks about how good having a third-party interpreter in Python community while the whole Python eco-system is heavily relying on the old (maybe good-enough) Python C API.
Whenever I meet a C API issue on RustPython project (yes, I contribute to RustPython), I think about PyPy, and check what's going on C API, and realize 15 years was not enough to change things. Now the momentum of PyPy is not that strong as before. I believe Python community lost a huge chance.
Hope HPy or something can save PyPy. Maybe RustPython also will get a chance around there.
Core contributors still contributing regularly.
Problem of PyPy was making decisions that's really bad for exposure - like having non GitHub repo because they love mercurial. I love mercurial too but to contribute to opensource have to use GitHub. Which they finally moved now.
I hope PyPy will become popular again.
Whenever I meet a C API issue on RustPython project (yes, I contribute to RustPython), I think about PyPy, and check what's going on C API, and realize 15 years was not enough to change things. Now the momentum of PyPy is not that strong as before. I believe Python community lost a huge chance.
Hope HPy or something can save PyPy. Maybe RustPython also will get a chance around there.