I'm excited to announce that HPy 0.9 was recently released! The fourth official HPy release comes with many new features and was again made available on PyPI. This is the first release that also provides binary wheels, so installation is no…
I'm excited to announce that HPy 0.9 was recently released! The fourth official HPy release comes with many new features and was again made available on PyPI. This is the first release that also provides binary wheels, so installation is no…
We just ended our rather informal HPy meetup in Brno (Czech Republic) which started on Saturday (October 7th) and lasted until Tuesday (October 10th). The main topics of the HPy meetup were: Petr Viktorin, one of the CPython core developers…
HPy provides a new API for extending Python in C. In other words, you use #include instead of #include . Zero overhead on CPython: extensions written in HPy run at the same speed as "normal" extensions. Much faster on alternative implementa…
As we announced in this blog post, we are currently having our joint PyPy/HPy/GraalPy sprint in Düsseldorf. On Thursday (September 22nd, 2022), we did the HPy sprint report. Most notably, we also had several CPython core developers in the c…
Recently, the GraalVM Python team started a series of blog posts on Medium about HPy on GraalPy and about the migration of Matplotlib to HPy . The second blog post is in particular interesting since it not only describes the migration proce…
I'm happy to announce that we will finally have another PyPy/HPy/other sprint in Düsseldorf, Germany from September 19-23, 2022. The sprint will be located at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Many thanks to Carl Friedrich for organizin…
HPy 0.0.4 is out! The third official HPy release comes with many new features and was again made available on PyPI. Major highlights of the release are a bunch of new API functions (e.g. HPyErr_ExceptionMatches, HPyErr_WarnEx, HPy_Contains,…
HPy 0.0.3 is out! This is already HPy's second officially released version and was again made available on PyPI. The major highlights of this release are new API functions, new debug mode features, and Windows support. HPy provides a new AP…
HPy 0.0.2 is out! This is the first version which is officially released and made available on PyPI. The major highlight of this release is that it is supported by three different Python implementations: CPython, PyPy and GraalPython. HPy p…
Following the example of many other FOSS projects, the HPy team has decided to move its official #hpy IRC channel from Freenode to Libera.Chat: irc.libera.chat/hpy The core devs will no longer be present on the Freenode channel, so we recom…
Yesterday I had the privilege to give a talk about HPy (sildes) at the Python Language Summit 2021. The organizers of the summit will soon publish a full report about the event (edit: now available here), but for the HPy-specific part, we g…