The Mypy static type-checking project for Python is exploring ways it could aid with effortlessly compiling Python into C or machine language ...

The program works by reading a Python script as an input file, setting up a few parameters, then making a request to OpenAI’s Codex API for the conversion. It then attempts to compile the result.

Python has never been as speedy as C or Java, but several projects are in the works to get the lead out of the language.