Cython

6 engineers on Hacker News describe using Cython first-hand: 4 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.

71%trust
6first-hand users
4in production
endorse 4mixed 0regret 1uses, no opinion

“At my work, we realized that Cython is faster so we completely switched to it for our in house testing framework.”

endorse · production · firesteelrain · 2024-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“For pysimdjson we switched back to cython for an order of magnitude improvement.”

endorse · personal · TkTech · 2023-02-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Cython was a real problem, so we switched to the excellent pybind11 library.”

regret · production · olq_plo · 2020-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“With Cython/PyPy I can get things done when resources are more restricted.”

endorse · personal · hurtmyknee · 2017-09-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“in the projects where we switched from pure Python over to statically-typed Cython, it cleared up tons and”

endorse · production · p4wnc6 · 2016-01-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“With Cython (finally we migrated to Pypy) we gained around 20-60x speedup.”

neutral · production · hansor · 2022-04-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?