Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 9:50 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 06:35:40 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 6:23 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> >>> wrote: >>>> I'm also saddened by the type hinting initiative. When you try to >>>> be best for everybody, you end up being best for nobody. The niche >>>> Python has successfully occupied is huge. Why risk it all by trying >>>> to take the whole cake? >>> >>> Did you complain when function annotations were introduced back in >>> 2006? >>> [...] >> >> Yes, but in fairness, people have abandoned Python by the handful for >> Go and Javascript. At the rate people are abandoning Python, in >> another 10 or 20 years Python will have dropped to the second most >> popular language: >> >> http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html >> > > Oh, I forgot about that. That's why Guido is busily stuffing it with > every feature he possibly can, in the hope that - once Python runs out > of popularity - it'll at least... actually, you know what, I got > nothing.
So the point *was* popularity!? I suspected as much. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
