An endless multiplication of veto points in a consensus culture is a failure mode. Funny thing is people embedded in such a culture will see its slowness as a feature and sneer at the world as it leaves them behind.
Python was better with a BDFL.
The best thing that could happen to Python right now would be for someone to fork it. Maybe just have Astral run away with the whole language. This lock file format should have taken a weekend, not four damn years.
A governance model where “time-based decision thresholds” directly damaged veto power as time passes could be used to harness this sort of BDFL-only power in a consensus culture.
Python was better with a BDFL.
The best thing that could happen to Python right now would be for someone to fork it. Maybe just have Astral run away with the whole language. This lock file format should have taken a weekend, not four damn years.