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How the CPython VM works

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> CPython is [...] one of the Python implementations, alongside with PyPy, Jython, IronPython and many others.

What others are there? I’m only aware of MicroPython, but it only implements a subset of the language.

What’s more, aren’t both Jython and IronPython dead? Leaving PyPy as the only significant alternative to CPython?

Oracle Labs is actively working on a Python for GraalVM: https://github.com/graalvm/graalpython/

Lack of any standardization meant that none could keep track of CPython

Brython comes to my mind

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