A Future Python

A presentation about how Python could be.

Transcript

1. a Python future
2. Armin @mitsuhiko Ronacher
4. what can I tell you?
5. let me tell you about a future
6. i can't tell you what the future will be, but here is what I wish it to become
7. and the future will be different
9. where are we now?
10. and how we came here
11. people love python
12. stackoverflow most loved
13. stackoverflow most wanted
14. but what about the future?
15. let's make a detour
19. rust is hard
20. rust is complex
21. so why do people love Rust? (and what does it mean for Python?)
22. the packaging story
23. the distribution story
24. reliability and trust
25. zero cost abstractions
26. a clear backwards compatibility story
27. the community
28. rust tells us a story
29. rust's values are transparent
30. […] the Rust programming language is fundamentally about empowerment: no matter what kind of code you are writing now, Rust empowers you to reach farther, to program with confidence in a wider variety of domains than you did before.
31. it's okay to create something complex
32. if using it is easy
33. our approach so far
34. we succeed despite our process
35. the wider community vs the core developers
36. the packaging story
37. distribution
38. typing
39. why?
40. we're afraid of complexity
41. we work against each other
42. how do we prevent this from happening?
43. we need to work together
44. not to be afraid
45. we need a vision
46. and that vision could be bold
47. working groups?
48. pay developers?
49. embrace black and lint name violations?
50. TypeScript for Python?
51. py_modules and package.json?
52. non indexable UTF-8 strings?
53. phase out cabi for ffi?
54. load wasm modules?
55. strip stdlib down?
56. multi version import system?
57. simplify object model?
58. cross compile to wasm?
60. Q&A lucumr.pocoo.org / @mitsuhiko