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• sunfish

  12 2,885 2.5 Python

  Sunfish: a Python Chess Engine in 111 lines of code

The engine I'm referring to, Sunfish, has a highest rating of 2100 on lichess and a current rating just under 2000. That's better than 90% of people that play chess often, and far better than general population. So it plays well by most human standards, but there's still room for improvement. But that's a very computationally intensive task, and bare python is good enough. My point is it's not as simple as saying "python is slow" because most of the time it's good enough to do what you would want it to do.

• Senpwai

  2,176 128 9.3 Python

  A desktop app for tracking and batch downloading anime

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• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Pyjion

  23 1,407 5.0 C++

  Pyjion - A JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR (by tonybaloney)

Python is capable of doing things at runtime that are really hard to statically compile around, such as monkeypatching methods onto existing objects. You can compile it, but it's complicated. One strategy is to use a JIT that can observe application state at runtime and then invalidate code as it becomes obsoleted by changes, but it's complicated. See pyjion for an example.

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