Exactly correct. PyPy is a replacement for CPython 3.11, which aims to be fully compatible with pure Python code (C extensions are a more complicated story).

Timely management of external resources is what the `with` statement has been for since 2006, added in python 2.5 or so. To debug these problems Python has Resource Warnings.

Additionally, CPython's gc is also only eager in a best effort kind of way. If cycles are involved it can take long to release memory. This will become even more the case in future versions of CPython, in the free threading variants.

PyPy isn't unmaintained. We are certainly fixing bugs and are occasionally improving the jit. However, the remaining core devs (me among them) don't have the capacity to keep up with cpython. So for supporting new cpython versions we'll need new people to step up. For 3.12 this has started, we have a new contributor who is pushing this along.

The English term for 'Bildungsroman' is actually... 'bildungsroman' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman

Complaining about a rest (however long) in a piece by the composer of 4'33'' is certainly A Take.