tinygrad pushes Python to the limit with a full compiler and GPU drivers in pure Python
HankYeomans · x · 2026-09-03
The tinygrad team says it has built a full compiler and GPU drivers entirely in pure Python, arguing "Python isn't slow, your code is bad" and framing Python as a great orchestrator of C. The author concedes a better type system would help.
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