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We should make this Python 4.0 and move on. Some high paid google engineers working the "official" 3.x will be pissed, but that's life. I am sad to see the schi

• rch 10y ago
  A non-trivial number of people seem to want this, but why does it need to be called Python? Keep the syntax and C extension compatibility, but ditch the name. One could even work out a means of selectively bringing in ideas from elsewhere: - Concurrency from Erlang (http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1454463 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1454463) - String handling from Go (https://blog.golang.org/strings https://blog.golang.org/strings) - Lightweight data classes (https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/data-classes.html https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/data-classes.html) - Syntactic macros from Nim (https://hookrace.net/blog/introduction-to-metaprogramming-in-nim/ https://hookrace.net/blog/introduction-to-metaprogramming-in...) - more from Lua, Julia, Scala, and Haskell (within reason) There are already plenty of examples of Python modules that implement significant modifications (e.g. Cython, Rpy2, Dask), so I don't think it would really feel all that different from typical Python programming.