I used to hang around the Python community in the past, the chat rooms read the mailing list, always check the website for updates. And here is what I think we

I used to hang around the Python community in the past, the chat rooms read the mailing list, always check the website for updates. And here is what I think went wrong: 1. White Space, syntax does matter and so many people where turned off just by the syntax choice of white space, its just annoying 2. Zope, this framework always had a popularity of being too complex, Zope 3 was a rewrite to fix the problem with Zope 2, Guido worked for Zope for a while, I thnk he left, if start looking at Zope and see it was rewritten from scratch, you become warry, Zope till today have the reputation by being too complex and forcing you to learn new zope specific languages 3. Twisted Matrix, it also had a reputation of being too complex and it didnt serve a common need anyway, what the heck is event driven networking anyway! And their community, sooooooo exclusive 4. The community, a lot more interesting ppl use Perl and Ruby, do you know of any cool blog by a pythoneer? do you know any cool pythoneer? even Matz is cooler than Guido, and Matz isnt even cool! Open source project need people considered to be cool in their community, Dan Short was the only cool Python I remember, he disapeared I dont know what happened to him Zed Shaw also occasionaly drop a good word for Python but trust me, if he digs deeper into Python, he will backlash.