Python is already won

It is that simple. The momentum, which is partially due to the unprecedented AI bubble, is such that it actually became “too big to fail” and too important (for more than one industries) to not be “done right”. 3.14 is getting a proper tail-calls in the interpreter, 3.13 got an initial support for native compilation. It will only continue to get polished by literally millions. The last fundamentally right addition was the support for the proper sum-types (a tagged union) as dataclasses and the the related pattern-matching syntax....

March 6, 2025 · <lngnmn2@yahoo.com>

On Python

Python is eating the word. When I type “Python” on the Library Genesis search prompt I’m getting some 300 pages (7628 files found | showing results from 1 to 25). This has to be bullshit. Arguably, the mass hysteria has started when MIT switched from the classic MIT Scheme to Python as its main teaching language. The AIMA code at Berkeley has been ported from Common Lisp to Python at about the same time....

May 25, 2024 · <lngnmn2@yahoo.com>