Pyrefly is not the first Python type-checking tool from Meta. Previously, the company delivered Pyre, written in OCaml. Pyre has since been retired; Pyrefly, written from scratch in Rust, replaces it.

The Py-Spy profiler can profile Python applications without modifying source code, and it installs using Python’s native package management A new sampling profiler tool for Python developers, Py ...

Rust is blazingly fast and memory-efficient: with no runtime or garbage collector, it can power performance-critical services, run on embedded devices, and easily integrate with other languages.

In 2015, bioinformatician Johannes Köster was what he called “kind of a full-time Python guy”. He had already written one popular tool — the workflow manager Snakemake — in the ...

Programming language Python is now firmly the second most popular programming language, for the first time knocking Java out of the top two places in RedMonk's language popularity rankings. It's ...