Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter
A new project called 'pon' is a native compiler and runtime for Python 3.14 written in Rust that eliminates the need for an interpreter. It uses the Cranelift backend to provide both Just-In-Time and Ahead-Of-Time compilation for improved performance.
pon is a JIT & AoT native compiler and runtime for Python 3.14, written in Rust. There is no interpreter and no bytecode: every module is parsed with the ruff parser, lowered to one shared IR, and compiled to machine code through Cranelift — either just-in-time inside the process ( pon run ) or ahead-of-time into a standalone native executable ( pon build ). Memory is managed by a Green Tea garbage collector instead of reference counting, and correctness is enforced by a byte-exact differential harness against CPython v3.14.0.
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