[pypy-dev] Builtin types

[Nathan Heagy]

>> OTOH I think a higher level of abstraction is necessary to targert 
>> more general
>> backends.
>
> I agree with Samuele that we should not focus on ctypes or any other 
> kind of
> structs right now.  For all of ctypes' power I believe that it is not 
> central
> to Python-in-Python.  This will become important later, when we target 
> C.

So you're suggesting backends besides C? That's a good idea since it 
would allow us to in fact build a backend in C# which I brought up as a 
joke earlier (no one seemed to have noticed the j/k) but which might 
not be such a bad idea. A java backend would even be possible. If most 
of the code is Python anyways and a minimal amount is needed in another 
language to get things running then there is huge potential to target 
other platforms, etc. It would even aid PPC/OS X support which is 
something I greatly desire.
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