Antonio Cuni: Inside SPy, part 1: Motivations and Goals

Inside SPy🥸, part 1: Motivations and Goals

This is the first of a series of posts in which I will try to give a deep explanation ofSPy, including motivations, goals, rules of thelanguage, differences with Python and implementation details.

This post focuses primarily onthe problem space: why Python is fundamentally hardto optimize, what trade-offs existing solutions require, and where current approachesfall short. Subsequent posts in this series will explore the solutions in depth. Fornow, let's start with the essential question: what is SPy?

!!! Success "" Before diving in, I want to express my gratitude to my employer,Anaconda, for giving me the opportunity to dedicate 100% of my time to this open-source project.

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