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Could you explain the last line in your comment for someone who isn’t familiar with Ken Reitz?

• toyg 8y ago
  Kenneth Reitz is the author of Python library Requests. After Requests exploded in popularity, he developed a somewhat unique approach to marketing his libraries, to the point where anything he promotes nowadays becomes controversial (i.e. “is it good because it is good, or because Kenneth writes about it all-cute-y?”).
  • RidingPegasus 8y ago
    What a strange sentiment. I've never once heard anyone call Reitz controversial. I think the widespread usage of his libraries speaks for itself as to whether they are "good", especially considering they have standard library equivalents. Am a big fan of Arrow, it's far better than DateTime.
    • toyg 8y ago
      Well, now you’ve seen two in a single thread. Some of what Kenneth builds is very good, some less so. Sometimes he just pulls annoying stunts that are disrespectful of the community at large, like with pipenv. With all that “Human” marketing, he has burnt quite a bit of the goodwill accumulated with Requests, but he’s also built a critical mass of developers who will basically adopt anything he makes regardless of actual merits; which in turn generates backlash. The two phenomenons tend to feed on each other.
      • devxpy 8y ago
        I found most of his projects quite useful. Sure, it might involve a bit of overselling, but the API design is really good for the most part. Also - I don't think you can really sustain an open source project that brings almost nothing, except a really good API (which some people really value) to the table without good marketing.
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