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Right - and you'll wipe out somewhere around 60-90% of the users. The vast ecosystem will largely not be compatible and unless you're very lucky, most will not
by rich_sasha 3y ago
Right - and you'll wipe out somewhere around 60-90% of the users. The vast ecosystem will largely not be compatible and unless you're very lucky, most will not be compatible with your fork. Language withers.
As I said in the other comment, the compromise on everything is what makes it tick... I don't like all of it either, but I like a language that has top class support for ML, database connectivity, web programming, file wrangling, task orchestration and web scraping all in one. And even some poor but workable parallelization.
- packetlost 3y agoRetaining the community isn't necessarily a goal, the syntax is the thing I'd want to keep. Bringing over as much of the community as reasonable without compromising on other things, I think, is still a fairly worthy goal.
- rich_sasha 3y agoOf course goals can vary, for many, myself included, the fact that for most things you can _imagine_ there is a quality package on PyPI is a major draw of the language. I probably wouldn't use a fork that is 2x as fast and has 10% of the package coverage.
- amon22 3y agoWhy keep the syntax? It's one of the least impressive part of Python
- packetlost 3y agoI disagree! I think it's one of the better parts of the language