I feel very strongly about never accepting the age old excuse "they were killed by their success, have pity on them." All that's really saying is that they didn

I feel very strongly about never accepting the age old excuse "they were killed by their success, have pity on them." All that's really saying is that they didn't know how to manage the success, which is simply a leadership failure. And no one could possibly argue that Python hasn't had irregularly poor leadership for a long while. I'd go so far as to say that its success is in spite of its leadership, culminating with Guido basically giving the middle finger and walking away this year. Can't say I blame him. It is the nature of newer languages to learn from the mistakes of past ones. But the big irregularity which wasn't learned is that these languages I listed have very strong leadership. In the case of Go, I'd argue the strongest leadership of any language ever made, often to the disappointment of the community.