On 17.03.2021 19:16, Eric Snow wrote:
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 12:08 PM Barry Warsaw barry@python.org wrote:
Perhaps an even deeper and more provocative question is whether extension writers should be writing against *any* C API?
Decoupling extensions from the concrete C API could give the interpreter more flexibility for internal change.
Good point! I'm totally on board. :) I suppose that would be a Python 4.0 event and we could have no stable ABI for 4.0. (PEP 384 explicitly applies to Python 3.)
So drop the Python C API which has enabled creating such an elaborate software environment and established the basis for Python's popularity in so many industries ?
This would kill Python's popularity in the (data) science world and beyond, where performance is of essence.
Even with tools like Cython you still need the C API.
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