Brett Cannon
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#Python core developer; snarky #Canadian
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@kojoidrissa @mariatta @elthenerd Never heard of them
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
@kojoidrissa @mariatta @elthenerd Never heard of them
@glyph Performance. Here's an example regex with big performance gains: https://github.com/pypa/packaging/pull/988
perf: faster regex by henryiii · Pull Request #988 · pypa/packaging
This uses possessive qualifiers on 3.11+ to reduce backtracking. This makes the total time of my version creating benchmark 10-17% faster (that's everything, not just the regex!). (These plots ...
github.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
@glyph Performance. Here's an example regex with big performance gains: https://github.com/pypa/packaging/pull/988
@simon I know of people who have done this with Gleam by pointing LLMs at https://tour.gleam.run/everything/ and relying on Gleam being fully typed.
Everything! - The Gleam Language Tour
An interactive introduction and reference to the Gleam programming language.
tour.gleam.run
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
@simon I know of people who have done this with Gleam by pointing LLMs at https://tour.gleam.run/everything/ and relying on Gleam being fully typed.
@glyph There's definitely plenty of headroom. My key point is I just don't want people to go, "Glyph and friends raised $34,000! Mission accomplished!" and just move on from this.
November 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
@glyph There's definitely plenty of headroom. My key point is I just don't want people to go, "Glyph and friends raised $34,000! Mission accomplished!" and just move on from this.
@simon Do you know about dependency groups for grouping dependencies that you don't want to be a part of your project's packaging "API" by being an extra?
November 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
@simon Do you know about dependency groups for grouping dependencies that you don't want to be a part of your project's packaging "API" by being an extra?