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This turns me off of Python

• zahlman 2y ago
  As someone who was personally involved, it saddens me to hear this. The PSF is not Python, nor is the Steering Council. The language itself doesn't express any political ideology. Many core developers are displeased with the decision, too. I've been using Python for nearly 20 years. Its faults are many, but it's definitely the actually-existing language I hate the least. It's not even close. In the various threads here about the issue, I've seen calls to fork the project. This is a massive undertaking for a programming language and there's no viable way to get buy-in if you're planning to create something mutually incompatible. So that leaves separate implementations. But that doesn't really solve a problem, if the concern is that organizational dysfunction will limit development of new features - since you've committed to the same limitations. And if the concern is anything else, then why is that concern relevant to the language itself?
  • veltas 2y ago
    As an outsider I can just see some toxic behaviour here from people that seem to have some authority within Python project / steering. The fact that it has gotten this far, something which Peters apparently was trying to prevent and unfortunately failed to do so, is a big red flag to me. I agree a fork would fail. This is why I will avoid and recommend against utilising Python as a technology, because forking isn't realistic or constructive, and it seems the major implementation has this political baggage now. I'd only change my mind on this if the project apologised and reversed their decision, but given how the decisions were made I don't see that as a likely outcome.