20180713/https://www.zdnet.com/article/python-language-founder-steps-down/
Where Python goes from here will be up to Python’s core developers. Van Rossum asked: “So what are you all going to do? Create a democracy? Anarchy? A dictatorship? A federation?” Van Rossum continued, “I’m not worried about the day to day decisions in the issue tracker or on GitHub. Very rarely I get asked for an opinion, and usually it’s not actually important. So this can just be dealt with as it has always been.”
I don’t think “anarchy” will emerge, but the future will be quite ordered, following the line of Perl that we’ve previously seen.
My feeling is that new feature adoption in the core language will get stiffer in the following months/years, the existing Python core language developers will focus on maintenance mode, and those seeking new language features will migrate to other languages. (How will new Python core developers be inducted? Easy, they won’t be inducted.) Like Perl, the package ecosystem though will likely not change very much. There will still be new packages created and maintained, but the growth curve will remain fixed, and the new, steep exponential growth in package production will happen in other languages.
Wow, very interesting article here.
20180713/https://www.techrepublic.com/article/heres-why-younger-developers-cant-stand-new-programming-languages/
But Python is still the most popular and fastest growing language.
20180713/https://www.zdnet.com/article/java-javascript-c-no-python-is-the-fastest-growing-programming-language/