"This is pretty interesting if you love new things, love change, and love playing around with stuff. If you don’t and hate the idea of breaking changes, you maybe are better suited with the Python way. But don’t be afraid of breaking changes."
Pythonistas apparently don't like new stuff, change, or hacking around with things. How could anyone with any knowledge of both Ruby and Python write something like that in seriousness?
>Pythonistas apparently don't like new stuff, change, or hacking around with things. How could anyone with any knowledge of both Ruby and Python write something like that in seriousness?
Because he has seen it in the wild, and is evident in the long term behaviour of the two communities?
Pythonistas might like change and new stuff in the things they program WITH python or in other aspects of their lives, but they don't seem to appreciate it as much in their language, libraries and frameworks. Surely not as much as Ruby guys do.
See the quote from the Python core developer above: "We're a conservative community by nature - we generally don't like blazing trails when it comes to language design."
"This is pretty interesting if you love new things, love change, and love playing around with stuff. If you don’t and hate the idea of breaking changes, you maybe are better suited with the Python way. But don’t be afraid of breaking changes."
Pythonistas apparently don't like new stuff, change, or hacking around with things. How could anyone with any knowledge of both Ruby and Python write something like that in seriousness?