For me thinking about system design and coding is remarkably similar than actually coding it in Python. Language and its ecosystem has no quirks, libraries are

For me thinking about system design and coding is remarkably similar than actually coding it in Python. Language and its ecosystem has no quirks, libraries are stable, there is good documentation everywhere you look. Databases and services tend to have first rate Python bindings. Even web framework wars have quieted down with great winners. I started with Python in 1998, over 15 years ago. These days practicality and blandness is a virtue to me, not a shortcoming. I wouldn't say Python is not going where other languages are to be heading. It might do so with little fanfare and less heated discussions, but it still gets there. Or perhaps it has arrived "there" already, with a zen like presence. Only place of pain is the web browser. It is the most interesting platform, but with a language with greatly annoying warts. I'm glad that Ian has chosen to work at Mozilla to help create a better web. Perhaps he can do things for JavaScript ecosystem like he did so well for Python with virtualenv and pip.