Hugo van Kemenade's finger hovered over the button—then bam, Python 3.15.0a8 is out. JIT promises 7% gains, but after 20 years watching Python hype cycles, I'm not holding my breath.
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Python 3.15.0 alpha 6 just hit, packing a beefed-up JIT and UTF-8 as default. But with a full release two years out, is this worth your weekend tinkering?
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