I'd like to second this request, I would be more than happy to write code in a slightly more restricted way if it meant that I could generate C-fast modules from Python code. In my opinion, RPython is an even bigger deal than PyPy, as it's a very easy way to get C speed with Python syntax.

I have no idea why they haven't given the compiler some love so we can use it for our own projects. It sounds like it would become ubiquitous very, very fast.