Python was first released in 1991. It's older than Java. It existed before internet or multi-core was common. You have to balance "one obvious way to do it", "

Python was first released in 1991. It's older than Java. It existed before internet or multi-core was common. You have to balance "one obvious way to do it", "saying relevant" and "backward compatibility". We broke compat once in 25 years to stay relevant with I/O, and gave 13 years to migrate. And still, it was an outrage. Let's see what Go looks like in 2034.