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Google has ZERO incentive for the python ecosystem to flourish. Remember the breaking 3.0 change came when Guido was an employee there, and go was starting to g
by doof_warrior 6y ago
Google has ZERO incentive for the python ecosystem to flourish. Remember the breaking 3.0 change came when Guido was an employee there, and go was starting to get mainstream traction.
I agree with the embrace-extinguish crowd. The strategy will be to introduce a huge breaking change in the next release.
This is a corporation. They don't do things for free. What started out as a "free" browser turned into a vehicle to capture a monopoly on internet video. What makes you think they dont have a long term plan to profit from python?
- yunohn 6y ago>> Guido was an employee there, and go was starting to get mainstream traction. So your conspiracy theory is that Guido, the BDFL at the time, colluded with Google, who use python for numerous products, to destroy python and popularize Golang......?
- doof_warrior 6y agoYes. Track most breaking changes and broken libraries to the authors and you will see a Google connection.
- bzb6 6y agoThat’s interesting. You should write a post or something with all the links, because if you’re right that’s going to be spicy.
- gerash 6y agoI'd bet someone here would write some QAnon-level conspiracy theory on how this is bad news and here it is.
- MattGaiser 6y agoChanging to 3.0 hardly killed Python. The strategy to get rid of a project is not to introduce breaking changes, but just let it die through neglect. You don't need a scheme to kill a plant. You can just stop watering it.