https://blog.pyston.org/2017/01/31/pyston-0-6-1-released-and-future-plans/
This is the last release that Dropbox is sponsoring. We wanted to take some time to talk about what that means, both about the space of Python performance, and about the Pyston project specifically.
What’s happened
It’s hard to break down the change in cost-benefit analysis, but here are some factors that went into our decision:
We spent much more time than we expected on compatibility
We similarly had to spend more time on memory usage due to it being a bigger concern than expected
Dropbox has increasingly been writing its performance-sensitive code in other languages, such as Go