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by schrodinger 3 days ago
Are you familiar with the Go standard library? It’s notorious for its comprehensiveness and how often you can write zero dependency applications as a result.

And there’s a reason: the Go designers were huge Python fans, so leaned on its design quite a bit. They essentially wanted to make a modern Python with first class support for static typing and highly scalable parallelism, not just concurrency.

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It's too late to edit, but in retrospect I realize that the first sentence of that comment sounded awfully snarky, and I didn't mean it to. I apologize, and please trust it was asked in good faith.