/tags/compilers/Recent content in Compilers on Asadbek KurbonovHugoen-usTue, 07 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200/posts/inside-pon-compiled-python/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200/posts/inside-pon-compiled-python/<p>I came across <a href="https://github.com/can1357/pon">pon</a>, a project that sets out to be &ldquo;the bun/v8 of Python&rdquo;: a from-scratch native compiler and runtime for Python 3.14, written in Rust, with no interpreter and no bytecode. The pitch is ambitious enough to be worth taking seriously — and the repository is unusual in another way. It was built in about a week: 475 commits from a single author between June 30 and July 7, with an <code>AGENTS.md</code> file and conventional-commit discipline that make it fairly clear the bulk was produced with AI coding agents.</p>