Discoverability

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There is a new transpiler (pycom) that's getting good engagement on reddit and hackernews. It's written by a 15yo in two weeks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/w7vlim/i_made_a_python_compiler_that_can_compile_python/

Where people are comparing it to cython, nuitka, shedskin etc.

It appears to me that awareness of py14, pyrs and py2many family of work is still minimal. Someone searching google for "python to rust transpiler" will not discover this repo very easily. I don't know what the solution is. But making it more discoverable could attract more contributors.

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Maybe doing something big like transpiling a big project at least with a single backend could work as good advertisement?

One of the most annoying issues I encounter when using Python is packing, it'd be amazing to be able to compile a flask application to a single go executable or a pygame game to V etc.

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Meta claims rust is good for CLIs.

One possibility is to make the argparse -> clap translation really good so it becomes feasible to compile python CLIs into usable standalone binaries.