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Wow, just wow. Reading all these makes me really worried about supporting anything built on Python long term. This creates an impression of a self-destructing d
by lovecg 2y ago
Wow, just wow. Reading all these makes me really worried about supporting anything built on Python long term. This creates an impression of a self-destructing dying community.
- gtirloni 2y ago[flagged]
- tourmalinetaco 2y agoNo, it is pure 1984. Censorious nonsense spearheaded by those who are held unaccountable for their actions. The fact that this came about on a topic of voting systems is even more ironic.
- gtirloni 2y agoI was replying to the comment, not the whole thread.
- BadHumans 2y agoThis is silly. The Python Foundation could die tonight and people will still build in Python for years to come because believe it or not, most people do not know or care about the happenings of these organizations.
- kamaal 2y agoYeah, but my experience with Perl shows, once something like this happens, its pretty much downhill from there. Not saying Python is going away tomorrow, in fact it might remain actively developed and used for decades to come. But with proactive thought, improvement and initiative gone. Competition will replace you in time. That's just how it works.
- bun_terminator 2y agoAlso see for the last python release notes for some hardcore politics injected right into your tooling language. Python is unfortunately radioactive and can't be used responsibly anymore. They're halfway to selfdestruction
- xigoi 2y agoWhat specifically are you talking about? I couldn’t find anything political in the Python 3.12 release notes.
- gaganyaan 2y agoThey probably mean the poem at the bottom here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3120/ https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3120/ Under "And now for something completely different"
- xigoi 2y agoAh. That’s really inappropriate for a technical document.
- srid 2y agoUnnecessary politics in certain tech spheres is still a norm. For example, here's GNOME the desktop being concerned about climate change: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/question-to-candidates-the-board-and-the-climate/3475 https://discourse.gnome.org/t/question-to-candidates-the-boa...
- consteval 2y ago[flagged]
- bun_terminator 2y agoWould you feel the same way if the message was "make America great again"? And yes I did remove python from a big private repo and will argue against it at work when the question arises.