"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•1h 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•1h ago
Interesting story but the AI makes it irritating to read
flancian•2h ago
Time to AI tell: 20 seconds? Still, interesting account of how Guido stepped down.
Also, what happened afterwards, which I wasn't aware of:
StilesCrisis•1h ago