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  • flancian 1 hour ago
    "Not dead. Not retiring. Not moving on to start a blockchain company. He was quitting — because of a fight over two characters"

    Time to AI tell: 20 seconds? Still, interesting account of how Guido stepped down.

    Also, what happened afterwards, which I wasn't aware of:

      > Guido’s departure left Python without a governance model for the first time in its history. What followed was genuinely impressive: the core developer community proposed, debated, and voted on no fewer than seven different governance PEPs (PEP 8010 through PEP 8016).
      > In December 2018, PEP 8016 — “The Steering Council Model” — won. Authored by Nathaniel J. Smith and Donald Stufft, it established a five-person steering council elected by core developers. The design philosophy was explicit: “Be boring. We’re not experts in governance, and we don’t think Python is a good place to experiment with new and untried governance models.”
    • StilesCrisis 57 minutes ago
      "Not retiring. (...) He was quitting." -- is there even a functional difference here? It's not like he went on to become BDFL of a different language.
  • parallax_error 1 hour ago
    Interesting story but the AI makes it irritating to read