For those very rare occasions when an app's source code is all that's available, Wired details how to compile it yourself. Photo by artonice.

The developers behind Cython, the Python library for compiling Python code to C, have at last released Cython 3.0 after many years of development and refinement.

Nuitka, a compiler that transforms Python into C for the sake of both performance gains and a more portable runtime, has reached its 0.6 release—a milestone that lays the groundwork for future ...