One statically typed source compiles to readable CPython, a standalone set -euo pipefail bash script, or a source-less bytecode artifact. The compiler is written mostly in itself, bootstrapped from a 6.4 KB Python stub. Today Externum is launching (Show HN + DevHunt launch week). This post is the honest version of that story: what it does, what it's bad at, and the numbers I'd want to see before trusting any "multi-target compiler" pitch. The three backends Python target...