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Baroque Software
Company blog · baroquesoftware.com/blog · on HN as fijalprogrammingsystems
Baroque Software is the company blog at baroquesoftware.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention Baroque Software as the consultancy of the PyPy core developers, in threads on PyPy funding and an ARMv5 port. The comments do not assess its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-04-23
What Hacker News says?
Why wouldn't PyPy work on ARMv5? I think PyPy folks would be happy to do ARMv5 port for a reasonable price. You can find contact information at http://baroquesoftware.com/
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on “Space Monkey dumps Python for Go”Submitted Embedding PyPy in uWSGI – interview with Roberto De Ioris as a story · 10 points
HN discussionNot a bad idea. It would certainly elevate the project to unforeseen heights and probably turn them ( http://www.baroquesoftware.com/ ) into very wealthy men while offering a very desired and needed service for many businesses. While harming no one who didn't already harm themselves. More relevant than CPython3 overnight, which is of significant stature. If prestige and money are desirable things, absolute no braine…
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on “PyPy 4.0.0 Released – A Jit with SIMD Vectorization and More”Submitted Replacing CPython with PyPy at Magnetic as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWhy does PyPy not get support from the big Python based giants - the Dropboxes or the Googles of the world. It seems to me that PyPy is struggling for funding. PyPy has the potential to become the canonical Python - if the entire team had their finances taken care of (and not have to do things like http://baroquesoftware.com/ ). Is there a particular reason for this ?
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on “PyPy 5.1 released”Submitted Replacing CPython with PyPy at Magnetic as a story · 1 points
HN discussionas an example, https://github.com/hippyvm/hippyvm is another interpreter on RPython. That being said, the primary devs of PyPy/RPython are also a consultancy group, from what I recall, and PyPy is one of the tools they use for their consulting http://baroquesoftware.com/ specifically
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on “C-API Support update”