• maegul (he/they)
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    1 year ago

    Apart from new packages (which seems like a not insignificant part of it, as you say) … has the core python language really evolved that much over time? The type annotation system would count as a heavy piece of evolution, but other than that I’d guess the roll out of new features hasn’t really transformed the core language over the years … ? Is there a chance that the core language has just aged better over time?

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’d say barring packages, there’s a couple of other things that go into it:

      1. Core language updates, which are more rare but do happen, like the walrus operator or match case statements, or like you said with typehints (though typehints are somewhat of a combo of multiple things), f strings…
      2. Standard library features, like asyncio, and million other random little things
      3. Language tooling. Python didn’t always have pip and also recently added pyproject as a standard
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        1 year ago

        Yea … all good points … still I’m thinking that the “threading the needle” is in many ways attributable to the core language and design philosophy standing the test of time (so far).

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          1 year ago

          For sure; good decisions early about core design and about how to evolve are the foundations on which all else is built.

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        1 year ago

        And a possible 4: runtime changes. I suspect this will become more and more apparent and important to the average user, with all the performance updates that have been coming to CPython interpreter