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Jtsummers • today at 1:03 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

> Python is over 30 years old and it's going fine. You don't see people ragging on Guido everywhere.

Guido stepped down from that role 8 years ago. It now has a 5-member steering council along with the core developers as the primary maintainers and decision makers.


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zahlman • today at 2:21 AM

Also, Guido stepping down had a lot to do with people starting to rag on him everywhere, which in turn related to him endorsing a language feature (https://peps.python.org/pep-0572/) that he'd previously rejected (https://peps.python.org/pep-3099/).

That said, I'd agree with GP that design by committee does suck and I'm not impressed with several of the decisions the SC has made since.