Q&A with Guido van Rossum, Inventor of Python

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blamazon · 2023-07 · Reference

I was curious about these comments and did a small web search. I found a video interview from May 21, 2021 [1] and have pasted some excerpted quotations from it from Guido van Rossum below for others who are curious. “Python 4, at this point whenever it’s mentioned in the core development team, it is very much as a joke… We’ve learned our lesson from Python 3 vs 2, and so it’s almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense.” [...] “I normally talk about that as a mistake, because Python was more successful than the core developers realised and so we should have been much more aware and supportive of transitioning from Python 2 to Python 3” [...] “I’m not thrilled about the idea of Python 4 and nobody in the core dev team really is – so probably there never will be a 4.0 and we’ll just keep numbering until 3.33, at least” [...] “We now have a strict annual release schedule, so after 3.10 will be 3.11 and after that will be 3.12, and so forth. We can go up to 3.99 before we have to add another digit. Adding another digit is not completely trivial, but still much better than going from 3 to 4." [1]: [VIDEO]

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pansa2 · 2021-06 · Reference

Is Nim particularly similar to Python? More than Go, which Guido recently described as being the new language that’s most Pythonic? [VIDEO]

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eesmith · 2021-05 · Reference

It links to the one hour interview at YouTube - [VIDEO] . His views on Rust starts at [VIDEO] . Go at [VIDEO] . (Short) Julia at [VIDEO] After making his comments about Julia, "I"m sure in 5 minutes that will be on Hacker News with a counter-example" (of a web server in Julia "with a lot of mileage out of it). TypeScript at [VIDEO] . Of the four mentioned language, that has the most influence on Python.

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