Socially accepted #Python over the years (and for good reasons):
2020: Python 3.6 is the thing! Everything before that is ancient. (Remember https://python3statement.github.io/ ?)
2024: Python 3.9 has annotations from the future! May be Python 3.11 for some extra perf juice if all the dependencies are on board.
2025?: Python 3.13, serve me some sweet REPL, free-threading and JIT, please.
#Anaconda is a well meaning player in the #Python world and it has an interesting business model.
I used to think they only charge for support. They also require big orgs with over 200 emplyees to purchase licences that use their GUI and its distribution (inc. miniconda) and default package channels. Of course alternatives like miniforge and conda-forge channels exist, but for begineers their GUI is good to have.
Interesting spin on the old pay for distribution clause of FOSS licenses.
A.K.A. shell scripting is awesome, and why don’t-repeat-yourself (DRY) matters. Context: PyPy moved its repositories to Heptapod (unrelated, but I have to mention it is an awesome source-code forge and a project) and binary builds to downloads.python.org. PyPy could no longer be installed using pyenv. Since I happened to try install PyPy the same day it stopped working, I was among the few it noticed it.
Representing Transonic
We now have multiple Python interpreters and let’s see what is in store.
Computing Feigenbaum constant
