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Aren't conservatism and minimalism pulling in opposite directions here? Amber wants to remove asyncio from the standard library. That's minimalism but not cons
by mjw1007 7y ago
Aren't conservatism and minimalism pulling in opposite directions here?
Amber wants to remove asyncio from the standard library. That's minimalism but not conservatism.
- geofft 7y agoI think "gracefully correcting mistakes" is in the usual definition of conservatism: political conservatives who say that recently-recognized rights aren't actually rights or who wish to shut down recently-instituted programs that depend on government spending are no less conservative simply because they want a change to the status quo. Also note that one way of interpreting her proposal is "generalizing the 'ensurepip' model" to keep things already in the standard library in the standard library, but move feature development externally and make it easy to upgrade packages in the standard library. (Then Twisted, which is also installed externally, can simply depend on a fixed version of a standard-library package.)