Strategy for Traction

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 11:25 +0000, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
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>  From a period of 5 hours today I have already gleamed this:
> Python community doesn't really care about 64 bit much; 50 ways 
> to do something? sure but lets not make it really really amazing. 
> Over complicated? not really, needs more in fact.

What makes you say Python community don't care about 64-bit? I bet
you'll find most of the Python community either don't care about
32-bit/64-bit because they have no need to, or they are using 64-bit
already.

I'm not sure what the rest of the paragraph is trying to say. Sorry
probably my fault.

>  From coming from the D perspective it can be quite challenging 
> for me. I would rather as a community we focus on projects 
> together (which we do quite well already) than split off and do 
> our own thing.
> The other thing is, making things just work. In as many use cases 
> as possible.

Historically the Python community has been fiercely libertarian despite
the "batteries included" approach of the distribution early on. This
leads to many variants for new ideas but this generally sorts itself
out.

> I usually go in the deep end when I start learning a language so 
> this probably doesn't reflect the python community completely.

Get involved with the Python community and find out :-)

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