As a prospective user the first thing I look for is lists, list comprehension, list slices, string methods, zip, zip*, tuple destructuring, generators, dicts and sets. These data structures, their syntax, and associated methods are what make Python a joy to use. They are what make it possible to solve a puzzle in a one-liner.

The examples in the playground are neat but I don’t see any of the Python bread and butter usage. I see C with Python syntax.

I’d like to see Python syntax solving a problem in a pythonic way, albeit with type annotations. And then I’d like to see the compiled version run 30x-100x faster. Is that ultimately the promise of this project?

yes (work in progress :))