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I feel like Python is losing its way, its maintainers seem to feel the need to "compete" by implementing poor copies of other languages' syntax. The "walrus" as

• Spivak 6y ago
  I assumed this change had the opposite motivation since people who would ask for more language features could now do them in macros while keeping the core language small.
  • Daishiman 6y ago
    Complexity is complexity, and a lot of it is irreducible. Pushing complexity up into libraries does nothing to ameliorate. In fact it makes it worse, as have to work with libraries with different idioms makes the language a hodgepodge of slightly incompatible conventions. In Python the complex machinery is in the language and the stdlib. All additional libraries that work with the language generally use stdlib constructs for data interchange, or at least base their work on it. That makes for an extremely pleasant programming experience. Learning a different macro per dependency is going to lead to catastrophe. I know it's in an exaggeration, but I see this in macro-based languages all the time.