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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
by 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 agoWhich 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 agoThat 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.