Except to add that Python has issues but is clearly winning hearts and minds for a reason. It’s wonderful that an open source language has become so powerful, versatile, and widely adopted.
I’d take this era of computing over the days of ActiveX and Flash being the ubiquitous approach to releasing software.
- Realize nothing I work on really has so much impact as this one lone hero is likely to have already achieved by releasing this code
- Open HN thread with a sense of wonderment
- Read top comment, engulfed by a wave of revulsion, remember why we can't have nice things