Pycon 2009, as of 2pm on Friday, is the best Pycon I’ve been to yet. The talks this year are really well put together, it’s clear that the speakers are high caliber and spent time on their talks. Despite the lower attendance numbers (thanks Economy!), it feels like Python is poised for some significant growth.
The Python VM panel, with representatives from Jython, IronPython, PyPy, cPython, and the relatively new Google-cPython-speedup project-unladen-swallow, is laying out a future for Python the language points pretty clearly at “Python is an objectively good language, let’s get rid of this silly implementation idea.” Meaning, developers want to write Python, and they want it to run everywhere, and they want to leverage other tools, regardless of origin language, in their language of choice, which…thankfully, is Python.