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TZubiri a day ago

>1. It's not Python by any means, it's a subset with its own runtime, its own quirks and nuances;

A subset of python is python. Half a tomato is still tomato

>2. It will be impossible to maintain parity with CPython without AI assistance

What does that even mean? If you would have said that it's impossible to update to python 3.15 of further, I'd get it.

▲ geraneum a day ago | parent | next [-]

> A subset of python is python. Half a tomato is still tomato

The funny thing about this is not that the first sentence is wrong, which it is. It’s the failed reductio ad absurdum.

▲ skeledrew a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> A subset of python is python. Half a tomato is still tomato

A subset of a calculator is still a calculator, but that subset definitely can't do everything the full version can.

▲ cwillu a day ago | parent [-]

Most subsets of a physical calculator are properly called “a broken calculator”.

▲ skeledrew a day ago | parent [-]

This isn't about the shell of a calculator though, but the functionality. Like if the only operations are addition and subtraction, theoretically you could derive the effects of other operations but it's extremely limiting.

▲ bunderbunder a day ago | parent [-]

So yeah, half of Python might still be Turing-complete, but it wouldn’t really be Python for any practical purpose.

Just like how a device that can’t multiply or divide is not a 4-function calculator; it’s more like an adding machine. Many of which did multiply by serial addition.

	▲	TZubiri 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you write a program in python, say a hello world: ' def hello_world(): `print("hello, world")` ' Is that not python? Yet it uses a subset of python? That program can be run by either a python runtime, or a python subset runtime. Now if you were to run a python subset program, like a hello world, you would get: ' def hello_world(): `print("hello, world")` ' Whoah, it's the same thing. Turns out every program you write with a subset of a language, is valid for the super language. Subjectively also, if the subset is big enough, it feels like that language, if it uses 'def' for functions, that's python. 'I know it when I see it' kinda deal. I think the confusion comes from the mathematical folk reading "subset of X is X", and implying that "subset of X=X". But this is natural language, not mathematical language, when I say that "dog is mammal", I'm not saying that "dog = mammal" I'm saying that "dog ∈ mammal", and "subset of python ∈ python"

▲ Archit3ch a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> A subset of python is python.

Mojo folks (rightly) disagree.

	▲	leobuskin a day ago \| parent [-]
		Mojo folks created a new language, officially called it "superset", and trying to sell to enterprise. And it's not a superset by definition, because it can't run it's "subset" (the original Python) without CPython (which was used as libcpython under the hood, iirc). It's a travesty.