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“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

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2024 points randlet | 1 comments | 12 Jul 18 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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adamnemecek ◴[12 Jul 18 16:16 UTC] No.17516031[source]▶
Even though I write python only if it’s going to be like 200 loc tops, it’s insane how gracefully the language has aged. It came out in 91, thus predating for example Java. Fun fact, I believe the very first google scraper was written in it.

At the same time I can’t wait for the next language to replace it.

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1. anothergoogler ◴[12 Jul 18 16:40 UTC] No.17516304[source]▶
Python hasn't changed much, but the world around it has. For better or worse, when jobs in the language were few and far between, it was a friendlier and less competitive community.