unladen swallow: python and llvm

[Neal Becker]

bearophileHUGS at lycos.com wrote:

> s... at pobox.com:
>> Why not just write extension modules in C then?
> 
> In the past I have used some C for that purpose, but have you tried
> the D language (used from Python with Pyd)? It's way better,
> especially if you for example use libs similar to itertools functions,
> etc :-)
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

Is Pyd maintained?  I'm interested, but was scared away when I noticed that 
it had not been updated for some time.  (I haven't looked recently).