> if you work with others, this will cause uber amounts of pain. If this is true, why is it that there are plenty of large and successful frameworks and librar

> if you work with others, this will cause uber amounts of pain. If this is true, why is it that there are plenty of large and successful frameworks and libraries written in Python? > hacks will ensue en masse Having downstream projects that use it is a sign of health for a library. If they're using the library in ways its creator never envisioned, so much the better for everyone. That's innovation. More than once, I've had to make a choice between partially re-implementing part of a popular Java library's functionality, or shipping my own fork with all the maintenance burden that entails, because in the official version a field I want to access is private, or a class I want to subclass is final.