Types, Cython, program readability

[Stefan Behnel]

sturlamolden wrote:
> On 16 Mar, 15:32, bearophileH... at lycos.com wrote:
>> It seems the development of Cython is going very well, quite
>> differently from the dead-looking Pyrex. Hopefully Cython will become
>> more user-friendly too (Pyrex is far from being user-friendly for
>> Windows users, it doesn't even contain a compiler, I think. The
> 
> Pyrex is not dead.

Technically, that's true. There has been a release not so long ago, although
after a rather lengthy idle period.

However, the current development cycle of Cython is so fast that Pyrex will
have a hard time catching up. So there isn't much of a reason why you should
prefer Pyrex over Cython.

Stefan