Pierre Augier
I'm a CNRS researcher at LEGI (Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS) studying geophysical and astrophysical turbulence, mostly with lab experiments and numerical simulations. I'm also passionate into how to program and calcul for science, in particular using Python and its ecosystem, and teaching about these subjects.
Session
SPy is a new statically compiled variant of Python created by Antonio Cuni. It stays
close enough to the language to be written by Python developers, yet compiles to native
code and WebAssembly with startup times and binary sizes comparable to Go or Rust. This
talk introduces SPy through three live demos, explains the key ideas behind its design —
blue and red expressions, redshifting, metafuncs — and makes the case that SPy could
become the companion static language Python has always needed: addressing the
two-language wall without asking the community to leave Python.