Python: The Documentary – An origin story [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4QL4VqJ0

180•CharlesW•5mo ago

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toomuchtodo•5mo ago

Guido van Rossum revisits Python's life in a new documentary - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45055272 - August 2025

gabrielsroka•5mo ago

I love Python. I love documentaries. I love computing history. I did not love this.

HuwFulcher•5mo ago

Care to elaborate why?

blu3h4t•5mo ago

I love that channel and many documentaries on that channel, But when I translated this python video with yandex and reuoded it I called it python drama and Perl advertisement.

hnlurker22•5mo ago

Ofcourse there's drama. It's a documentary about real humans, not a lecture. What did you expect it to be, details on the interpreter implementation?

HuwFulcher•5mo ago

Fail to see how it was a Perl advert

toastercat•5mo ago

Yeah, there's something about Honeypot (or I guess CultRepo now) documentaries that rub me the wrong way. Sometimes it feels like an over-glorification of the subject matter, sometimes it's the slick editing and music choices that remind me of corny biopic films. I get that it's trying to be engaging to not just technical people though.

linsomniac•5mo ago

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45058171

gabrielsroka•5mo ago

Weird. I made my comment here 4 days ago, but it says 19 hours ago. Maybe it's the second chance pool.

So I think the other one is a dupe of this one. Look at the ID numbers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=gabrielsroka

webdevver•5mo ago

haven't watched it yet - how does this stack up against the react documentary?

fnord123•5mo ago

It's not as good as the Java Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnqAXuLZlaE

mgd•5mo ago

Amazing. Almost as good as the Java rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Cr0EWwaTk

incone123•5mo ago

I prefer metal Java https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yup8gIXxWDU

mgd•5mo ago

Glorious. The loading time for Eclipse was perfection

kh_hk•5mo ago

Nothing compares to Erlang: the movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIjfIjssLE

mdaniel•5mo ago

we need a whole submission dedicated to these, as this thread is just stellar

jp0d•5mo ago

Thanks for sharing this.

ubercore•5mo ago

Saw a preview of this at EuroPython. Best part was Guido's pragmatism on making Python more inclusive. Paraphrasing a bit from memory "It's a hard problem, but problems have solutions."

rbanffy•5mo ago

I really enjoyed seeing Guido traveling through time while answering a single question.

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