The Cython compiler is 20 years old today !

[Stefan Behnel]

Dear Cython community,

it's now 20 years since Greg Ewing posted his first announcement of Pyrex,
the tool that is now known and used under the name Cython.

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/126661.html

It was a long way, and I've written up some of it in a blog post:

http://blog.behnel.de/posts/cython-is-20/

Today, if you're working on any kind of larger application in Python,
you're likely to have some piece of code downloaded into your venv that was
built with Cython. Or many of them.

I'm proud of what we have achieved. And I'm happy to see and talk to the
many, many users out there whom we could help to help their users get their
work done.

Happy anniversary, Cython!

Stefan



PS: The list of Cython implemented packages on PyPI is certainly
incomplete, so please add the classifier to yours if it's missing. With
almost 3000 dependent packages on Github (and almost 100,000 related
repos), I'm sure we can crack the number of 1000 Cython built packages on
PyPI as a birthday present. (No Spam, please, just honest classifiers.)

https://pypi.org/search/?q=&o=-created&c=Programming+Language+%3A%3A+Cython

https://github.com/cython/cython/network/dependents?dependent_type=PACKAGE

[Francesc Alted]

Hi Stefan.

Pyrex, and then Cython, came to be a game changer for the increasing plethora of developers of Python extensions (including myself).  Thanks for all the hard work that all devs, but specially you, Greg and Robert put in creating, and specially *maintaining* it though the years.  You are doing an outstanding work.  Keep it going!

Best

Francesc

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