alt Hacker NewsThe options are
a) do work to reduce issues as they come up b) appease the vocal complaints
A takes work, guts, and risk. Option b was chosen with the GC work basically saddled with so much process it’s never going to change. Python has a very storied history of being very committee driven design so the committee did the committee thing.
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evilturnip • today at 4:30 AM
I do find the BDFL approach much better for language design. You might disagree with the direction of the language, but there is usually a "philosophy" or "taste" driven by one person that tends to be consistent over time.
In fact, I think Guido himself resigned due to the experience he had trying to get a PEP through the committee.
Anyone who’s worked in incident response will tell you why you’re wrong.
Tweaking the GC while the system was functionally broken is the worst time to do it. Correct incident response is revert first, figure out how to fix it later.