This time we're hosting a special guest: Carl Meyer from Meta. What is Cinder, how does it work, and how does it intersect with the future of Python 3? Find out in today's episode. 100% serious stuff!

# Timestamps

(00:00:00 )  INTRO

(00:00:53 )  Carl Meyer's war story

(00:02:27 )  CINDER

(00:03:22 )  Static Python makes things significantly faster

(00:08:15 )  Cinder JIT and how it's tuned for Instagram

(00:11:57 )  Strict Python and the joy of import side effects

(00:16:35 )  The static typing controversy

(00:18:52 )  Upstreaming changes from Cinder?

(00:22:53 )  PEP 709: Comprehension inlining

(00:28:35 )  pip install CinderX

(00:31:19 )  Immortal instances

(00:35:15 )  asyncio.eager_task_factory()

(00:39:39 )  Carl's pet peeve with Python

(00:44:49 )  PR OF THE WEEK: PyPy's REPL in CPython

(00:52:07 )  WHAT'S GOING ON IN CPYTHON

(00:52:22 )  Python 3.12.1

(00:53:17 )  Python 3.11.7

(00:54:45 )  multiprocessing.SharedMemory track

(00:56:49 )  Fine-grained error locations for multi-line expressions

(01:00:03 )  libedit tab completion is fixed

(01:02:14 )  Colored exception tracebacks

(01:05:11 )  Removing testing modules from sys.modules, correctly

(01:06:47 )  SBOMs are a very serious matter

(01:09:08 )  Arrays by value on ARM

(01:12:24 )  Remove development environments and CAPS LOCK

(01:15:30 )  Interpreter cases generator refactored

(01:16:17 )  Free-threading news

(01:20:01 )  OUTRO