What's up Python? iPhone support, @sealed, PYTHON_GIL=0...
Not gonna lie, theses days what's trending in Python is AI. And most of what's AI is not stable, neither the code, nor the public attention. Just look at Github's "trending" page: it's filled with new AI projects, but the list is ever changing.
Reporting on that would be the equivalent pretending to be an oracle, believing I can triage what might be relevant for 2 days and a half. And that's before the Bitcoin halving triggers next month, when we start swimming in crypto-mania. So while I keep an eye on this for my personal benefit, I don't think I can make quality summaries about it. That would require an entire new blog.
The mobile platform is one of the weaknesses of Python. While you can use projects like Kivy to target phones, the top of the food chain never checks if releasing a new Python version has any impact on it.
The Beeware project, which aims at providing a way to ship python apps on many platforms, hold a special interest in having this to work and they announced last Tuesday to have tackled down a serious milestone:
