> Where is Python genuinely way ahead of everyone else? Only on numerical computing. No, that's not where it is. It's in being a user friendly language for peo

> Where is Python genuinely way ahead of everyone else? Only on numerical computing. No, that's not where it is. It's in being a user friendly language for people who need to get numerical work done, and there's a huge difference. IPython/Jupyter did not happen in any other language, not even remotely (the closest thing I've seen is some Lua graphic repl that didn't go far). > Nobody wants Python to morph into Java. Python is not morphing into Java, far from it. 3.x represents a cleanup of the language (str vs. unicode, new vs. old style classes, a lot of other stuff). I do not agree with all of it (I too disagree with demoting print from statement to function), and there is other stuff I would have done - but most of it was desperately needed. > What I want is vectorization plus DAG-like workflows. These are the most important pieces of computer science that actually dovetail with real world use cases, today For a tiny, tiny part of the users. And they already have e.g. Theano, and a few other tools, that give some solutions. > What I'd really like is for Python to give us a good framework for the Big Data world which is in almost everybody's use case now, Excuse me, but I have to disagree anyone other than a tiny (perhaps 1 percent) of Python users care about big data. Most definitely not "everybody's use case". And the minority which actually cares about big data should not get anywhere close to Python - the runtime is prohibitive. > This is not a nice-to-have capability anymore. It is what the next wildly popular mainstream programming language will have, built into the language. Interesting. What language has this today? I know not of a single one, mainstream or niche. I don't believe that you are right on this. > Let's not gift the opportunity of huge data to Java (Spark) and Cuda, or a new language that will see the future better than us. It should be Python! Check out Nim + Nimborg. You'll get the best of Python and Nim, and Nimborg would let you do the transition smoothly. Your idea of Python is not Guido's idea of Python, and as far as I know does not have popular support anywhere. If I were feeling so strongly about my favorite language being so misguided, I would look for a new language. The momentum of existing development direction is essentially unstoppable, whether it is right or wrong.