Python needs money to survive?

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I admit that I used assembler, Pascal, C, Lisp, Ada, C++, Java, SQL, and lastly Python without a thought to who was paying to create and extend the language.

I was never been concerned for the future of my programming language if I didn’t donate money to keep it alive. In fact, it seemed like every few years, a new language emerged forcing me to invest learning skills to reap the benefits over my “old” language and development processes.

Something has changed that I don’t understand.

One developer recently wrote:

Interesting that DI included a complete Go API for the GoPiGo3 years ago.

For education interpreted languages bring simplicity and immediacy, and I don’t see a new interpreted language that I should jump ship to.

For advanced robotics programming/applications C++ still seems to be the best language. Rust is making inroads in the ROS 2 community but C++ is still the recommended and best supported compiled language.

As far as my thoughts on Python Software Foundation: Stop holding the expensive, PyCon, and freeze the Python major release plan. Use sponsor funding to continue serving PyPI - the Python Package Index.

(IOW: stop trying to make Python play catchup with compiled languages.)

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Not trying to hijack the thread but:

One of the reasons that people are moving away from Python (IMHO), is that Python is too much of a “moving target”.

That is, if I spend time developing something in Python, I cannot guarantee that it will be compatible with future versions of Python that may be required. (i.e. Python on Bookworm)

Another reason is that (again IMHO), is that it’s trying to get all fancy with new features, gizmos, do-hickies, and such. And when they do this, they often depreciate the older, simpler, way of doing it.

So why would I want to contribute to a project/language that continues to find ways to frustrate me?

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