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They don’t, and if you asked, the usual response is something racist. Usually accusing them of being a spy.

So I'm hearing it's time to finally learn to code, and learn Python exclusively

Thank you for not bowing down even when it's not an insignificant amount of money compared to your annual budget 💖💖💖 I sent the PSF blog message to colleagues (we work for a big chip design company and do a looot of thing in python with regards to an internal tool) inciting them to donate

Much respect to them for this decision

??? Apparently my point wasn't well made, I'm saying that these anti-dei people are attacking the foundations of what they claim to value

I for real can't believe Mike would say something so nonsensical like this... "Oh, fascists speak english, you are speaking english, therefore you support fascism" THIS IS WHAT YOU SOUNDS LIKE MIKE!

This comes across like a "Hitler liked sugar, so you shouldn't use sugar" kind of argument.

OK and? Right wingers also drink water and breathe air. We can't quit everything because right wingers also do it. This is actually a pointless statement you made.

that doesn't really mean anything at all dude

mate, they couldn't have predicted like a decade+ ago when the language was being first developed that some assholes would use its suitability for certain types of programming to push turbocharged probability math into literally everything.

it's a programming language you can make literally anything with it, the language itself does not dictate what you can do with it. python became the gold standard for LLM tooling because python was already widely used in mathematical circles where modern AI tech originated (see jupyter notebook etc)

C'est la vie.

that's not a grant that's a bribe

They gonna pay Git a pile of cash to get rid of mainline and call it master again? Glad the python folks stood their ground.

It's been an adjustment, and I don't like the whitespace thing, but it's also the fastest I've been able to make a little tool for myself so I can almost forgive Python

Do you know how braindead you have to be to see programming software and start thinking about diversity

I know this is tangential to the point, but: dang, if that's the poison to taking a US NSF grant now, good on Python for rejecting it. And good on any developers put in a similar position, who instead reject, and choose alternate sources of funding over signing their souls to this nonsense.

I think you missed that in 2018 he stepped down from Python and then in 2020 he joined Microsoft. He also has not been on the Python board since 2019. This is all in the article you linked. That said, Python isn’t set up in the way you are implying.

PS if you use a Mac, Linux, play Eve Online, use Reddit, Youtube, or Spotify Then you use Python, even if you don't use those you certainly use something that relies on it. Many linux distros have python routines woven into them, and linux basically runs the internet.

I hate pylance so much more. Pylance makes me angry.

@starswillcome.bsky.social

thank you SO much for the support! It's been amazing to see the community come together!

Thank you!!!

It’s completely free and open source, I run this for community with a dedicated trust and safety team. Checking it out is cool, I’m not expecting much more, I just want people to look at it. Use it if it’s helpful to you.

Officially based Python.