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It certainly seems that way. Guido wasn’t interested in solving it and it was probably one of the things, like a gradual typing system which he was interested in, that he should have made a core issue because of its centrality.

Curiously, I wonder whether current leadership are unwilling to acknowledge that the current problems are essentially a leadership problem. See for example my short conversation with Pradyun on Mastodon (https://mas.to/@maegul/109726564552419983) where I’m not sure they were being open and rational (though they clearly know more than me).

This thread was in response to their blog post in Python packaging: https://pradyunsg.me/blog/2023/01/21/thoughts-on-python-pack...



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