Python jettisons the native JIT, at least for now

The experimental just-in-time compiler, or JIT, for CPython will be removed after its maintainers missed deadlines for its formalization set by the Python Steering Council. According to reporting at LWN.net , the move comes after the council formally paused work on the JIT in June 2026 until it approved a Python Enhancement Proposal, or PEP, that described how the JIT could become a properly supported part of CPython. The JIT’s proponents, Brandt Bucher and Savannah Ostrowski, originally drafted