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But is it possible that making the bugs we have more apparent would scare people off from using it? "Oh no! A programming language with bugs!"

• sophacles 17y ago
  I think anyone scared off that way is just looking for an excuse to run anyway. It's not like there exists a programming language that actually has no bugs. At best we have finally given up on those bugs being fixed and call them warts now.
• notauser 17y ago
  Maybe there could be an 'introduction to submitting patches to Python' tutorial with a VM that includes: - A Python implementation with some obvious and easy to find bugs (plus hints). - A checklist of the patch notes/emails that would be expected. - The e-mail address of someone who will read and respond to the submitted patch and offer feedback. (Should be low traffic, and it'd be worth answering the email to get a new patch submitter.)
  • Herring 17y ago
    Might also want to check how topcoder did it. They're not perfect (like WoW) but they've built a huge company on free labor, basically. WoW gets the serfs to pay for it.
• regularfry 17y ago
  Every software project has bugs. It's far scarier seeing bugs go unfixed than it is seeing that they exist.