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a Python future

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Armin @mitsuhiko Ronacher

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what can I tell you?

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let me tell you about a future

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i can't tell you what the future will be, but here is what I wish it to become

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and the future will be different

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where are we now?

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and how we came here

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people love python

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stackoverflow most loved

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stackoverflow most wanted

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but what about the future?

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let's make a detour

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rust is hard

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rust is complex

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so why do people love Rust? (and what does it mean for Python?)

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the packaging story

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the distribution story

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reliability and trust

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zero cost abstractions

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a clear backwards compatibility story

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the community

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rust tells us a story

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rust's values are transparent

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[…] the Rust programming language is fundamentally about empowerment: no matter what kind of code you are writing now, Rust empowers you to reach farther, to program with confidence in a wider variety of domains than you did before.

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it's okay to create something complex

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if using it is easy

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our approach so far

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we succeed despite our process

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the wider community vs the core developers

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the packaging story

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distribution

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typing

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why?

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we're afraid of complexity

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we work against each other

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how do we prevent this from happening?

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we need to work together

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not to be afraid

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we need a vision

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and that vision could be bold

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working groups?

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pay developers?

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embrace black and lint name violations?

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TypeScript for Python?

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py_modules and package.json?

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non indexable UTF-8 strings?

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phase out cabi for ffi?

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load wasm modules?

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strip stdlib down?

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multi version import system?

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simplify object model?

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cross compile to wasm?

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Q&A lucumr.pocoo.org / @mitsuhiko