| ▲ | aragilar 5 hours ago |
| Somewhat interesting that "volunteer project no longer under active development" got changed to "unmaintained". |
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| ▲ | maxloh 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| For context, they have 2 to 4 commits per month since October [1]. The last release was July 2025 [2]. [1]: https://github.com/pypy/pypy/commits/main/ [2]: https://github.com/pypy/pypy/tags |
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| ▲ | electroglyph 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| much respect to the PyPy contributors, but it seems like a pretty fair assessment |
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| ▲ | swiftcoder 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | 9 months since the last major release definitely feels like a short time in which to declare time-of-death on an open source project | | |
| ▲ | hobofan 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | It is also lagging behind in terms of Python releases. They are currently on 3.11, which was released 3.5 years ago for mainline Python. | |
| ▲ | tempay 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It’s been a lot longer than that. There was a reasonable sized effort to provide binaries via conda-forge but the users never came. That said, the PyPy devs were always a pleasure to work with. |
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| ▲ | killingtime74 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| What euphemism do you prefer then... |
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| ▲ | aragilar 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There's a difference between dead (i.e. "unmaintained") and low activity ("not under active development"). From what I can see PyPy is in the latter category (and being in that category does not mean it's going to die soon), so choosing to claim it is unmaintained is notable. | | |
| ▲ | Hamuko 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Being three major versions behind CPython is definitely not a great sign for the long-term viability of it. | | |
| ▲ | saghm 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm not sure "major versions" is the most correct term here, but I think your point is spot on | | |
| ▲ | Hamuko 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | For Python, 0.1 increases are major versions and 1.0 increases are cataclysmic shifts. | | |
| ▲ | johndough 25 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I don't know about that. For me, f-strings were the last great quality-of-life improvement that I wouldn't want to live without, and those landed in Python 3.6. Everything after that has not really made much of a difference to me. | | |
| ▲ | toyg 3 minutes ago | parent [-] | | That's like saying the last tax that affected you was passed in 2006... |
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| ▲ | kev009 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Undermaintained might be more suited since it does have life but doesn't appear commercially healthy nor apparently relevant to other communities. | | |
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