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Language, its community and development model is a reflection of its creator and his philosophy. So Without meeting the creator Guido, through language and its

Language, its community and development model is a reflection of its creator and his philosophy. So Without meeting the creator Guido, through language and its community I can see is very humble and care about things besides solving computer science problems. May be this is one of the reasons of success of Python and its community which is open, humble, friendly and inclusive. In my startup we have been using Python as one of the primary development language, and thanks to its community and Guido, we will continue to do so in time to come. I recently watched a talk by creator of Elm language [1] [2] who is trying to create similar community like Python, I will try it besides lisp, since I like the ethos of Python like community and obviously PEP-20 [3]. From my whole team thanks to Guido, and Python community. [1] https://elm-lang.org/ https://elm-lang.org/ [2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlzRt-FYto https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlzRt-FYto [3] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

iandanforth 7y ago
I'll also add "silly." A not-too-serious attitude from day one helps protect a community (IMO). When your language is named after a surrealist comedy troupe it kinda takes the wind out of the sails of moral outrage. Whimsy is surprisingly powerful.
- michaelcampbell 7y ago
  Which is odd to me; I resisted using python much because of the rabid culture around it, and I tried, several times. They didn't get the nickname "pythonistas" for nothing, nor in jest. It is much, much better of late (I was thrust into a role a year ago where I am doing 95% of my coding in python now). I'm not sure what's changed; I had assumed it was the "core" culturalists were diluted by the influx of ML people, but it is only an assumption.
  - acdha 7y ago
    That might have been an artifact of small sample sizes: I couldn’t think of any time in the last couple decades where I would have used “rabid” to describe Python culture as a whole.

iandanforth 7y ago

I'll also add "silly." A not-too-serious attitude from day one helps protect a community (IMO). When your language is named after a surrealist comedy troupe it kinda takes the wind out of the sails of moral outrage. Whimsy is surprisingly powerful.

michaelcampbell 7y ago
Which is odd to me; I resisted using python much because of the rabid culture around it, and I tried, several times. They didn't get the nickname "pythonistas" for nothing, nor in jest. It is much, much better of late (I was thrust into a role a year ago where I am doing 95% of my coding in python now). I'm not sure what's changed; I had assumed it was the "core" culturalists were diluted by the influx of ML people, but it is only an assumption.
- acdha 7y ago
  That might have been an artifact of small sample sizes: I couldn’t think of any time in the last couple decades where I would have used “rabid” to describe Python culture as a whole.