He, Inada Naoki and Victor Stinner on the optimization front are some developers that are capable of pulling a JIT of CPython.

This is something that I feel that Python need to do to keep the relevance. .Net Core, Rust and GoLang are examples of modern languages that deliver on the performance front.

I love Python and it is what use everyday. But very often I feel the need to a better code generation. Numba and Cython feels like a glue. PyPy it is slow with extensions, and this is a huge part of Python ecosystem. Although HPy (https://github.com/hpyproject/hpy) is trying to change this.

I feel that this is a must to Python, and would love to contribute money to this task.