Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>: > Stéphane Wirtel <steph...@wirtel.be> writes: >> Not a massive effort, but we are limited with the resources. > > I keep hearing that but it makes it sound like Python itself is in > decline. That is despite the reports that it is now the most popular > language in the world. It also makes me ask why the Python team keeps > adding new stuff if it can't even keep the old stuff running. I'd urge > a more conservative approach to this stuff.
Generally, my feelings are the same as yours, and I'm saddened by the steady decline of one of my all-time favorite programming languages. However, the Python developers can do whatever they want with their free time. Of course, it's much more exciting to add new bells and whistles to a language than maintain some 1980's legacy. So I can't make any demands for Python. > People who want bleeding edge advances in language technology should > use Haskell. People who want amorphous crap-laden ecosystems that keep > changing and breaking should use Javascript/NPM. Those who want to be > assimilated by the Borg and get aboard an entire micromanaged > environment have Goland or (even worse) Java. Python for a while > filled the niche of being a not too cumbersome, reasonably stable > system for people trying to get real-world tasks done and wanted a > language that worked and stayed out of the way. There's a programming language arms race. Python wants to beat Java, C# and go in the everything-for-everybody game. Python developers seem to take the popularity of the language as proof of success. Pride goes before the fall. > Please don't abandon that. I'm afraid the damage is already done. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
