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The post didn't answer why it took over 4 years. Why couldn't everyone be flied to the same place and have it all figured out in a week instead of having the p
by charcircuit 1y ago
The post didn't answer why it took over 4 years.
Why couldn't everyone be flied to the same place and have it all figured out in a week instead of having the process drag on for years?
- quotemstr 1y agoAn endless multiplication of veto points in a consensus culture is a failure mode. Funny thing is people embedded in such a culture will see its slowness as a feature and sneer at the world as it leaves them behind. Python was better with a BDFL. The best thing that could happen to Python right now would be for someone to fork it. Maybe just have Astral run away with the whole language. This lock file format should have taken a weekend, not four damn years.
- vinnymac 1y agoA governance model where “time-based decision thresholds” directly damaged veto power as time passes could be used to harness this sort of BDFL-only power in a consensus culture.
- zahlman 1y ago> Python was better with a BDFL. The problem is that the BDFL also didn't want to think about packaging, certainly not the issues that inspired Conda. I wouldn't mind seeing a PyPy-like fork done in Rust. Maybe take the opportunity to redesign the standard library, too.