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		sanxiyn on May 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT Julia is another dynamically typed language using LLVM. On the other hand, Julia was designed to use LLVM. I think this may be the first to succeed in dynamically typed language not designed to use LLVM.

ihnorton on May 14, 2014 [–]

What about Rubinius? (don't know much about it; does it not qualify as successful?)

erichocean on May 14, 2014 | [–]

There's also Python's "Unladen Swallow" attempt.[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unladen_Swallow

bobbyi_settv on May 14, 2014 | | [–]

Unladen Swallow is a dead project at this point (although many lessons were learned from it). The active Python LLVM Jit project is Dropbox's Pyston:

https://github.com/dropbox/pyston

https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an-upcom...

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