Re: How about using modern C++ in development of CPython ?

On 17/10/22 10:13 pm, Denis Kotov wrote:
> For example, PyObject is much better to implement using C++ class,

I used to think this. Python has OO features, C++ has OO features,
should be a good match, right?

Well, no. Python's OO is very flexible and dynamic, C++'s is very
rigid and static. CPython uses various low-level tricks that rely
on structs being just "plain old data". The OO features of C++
wouldn't help nuch with that at all, and would often get in the
way.

If you want a Python implementation that's less prone to memory
management errors, I would suggest having a small kernel written
in C, and write the rest using a tool similar to Cython that will
take care of all the tricky reference counting for you.

-- 
Greg