> we don't feel we have the personal bandwidth to carry the current version forward
Are the JIT developers the same people who were working on Faster CPython at Microsoft? No surprise that they don't have the same amount of energy to dedicate to the JIT now that it's gone from a full-time job to a hobby project.
That team was mostly hired away by NVIDIA.
What's the status of 'Faster CPython'?
I wouldn't be surprised if they all went nodejs instead :/
While JIT is being dropped, the original proposer and leader of the initiative was hired by ARM and continues work on speeding up Python.
His current focus seems to be speeding up GC and free threading.
Microsoft is not financing it any more and laid off most of the team working on it.