[the__alchemist]

I'd love a Python 4, or one by any other name, to be like the latest Python, but cleaned up, with no regards for backwards compatibility. For example: a trimmed standard library, and much of the alternate syntaxes removed. Better tooling and official-docs support; ie like Rust: A modern, official package manager, a built-in linter, formatter, binary-creator etc.

[japanuspus]

I have a hunch that in five years, the global-state package manager built into python will be a feature because we will all be working exclusively in dev-containers.

What does it matter to you if there are features in the standard library you don't use? The full python embedded distribution is only 8MB including runtime.

[the__alchemist]

I hope your hunch is wrong! I feel like containers are a symptom of situations like this Python one.

[kzrdude]

Hehe, Python 4 will probably not happen after 2->3.