dev call 20210902

Dev Call: 2 September 2021

Present

Tim, Florian, Stepan, Antonio, Ronan, Matti, Simon

HPy Mini-sprint Report

• Antonio, Ronan and Armin met in Italy to work on HPyField and walk in the mountains.

Plans for HPy 0.3

• Release 0.3 soon without HPyField.
• GraalPython is already up to date.
• PyPy is close to being up to date.

Plans for HPy 0.4

• Release 0.4 once HPyField is ready and has GraalPython and PyPy implementations.

UCT Student Proposal

• Tim and Simon plan to put together some suggested HPy projects for students at the University of Cape Town to work on this (southern hemisphere) summer break.
• We plan to look for good libraries to port to HPy and make a list.
• Other suggestions for projects welcome.

What people are working on next

• Ronan is planning to work more on the numpy port once HPyField is ready.
• Florian is planning to work on adding HPy support to Cython.