Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old today: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time

Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old today: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time

Feature February 20, 2021, the 30th anniversary of Python, finds the programming language at the top of its game but not without challenges.


"I do believe that Python just doesn’t have the right priorities these days," said Armin Ronacher, director of engineering at software monitoring biz Sentry and creator of Flask, the popular Python web app framework, in an email interview with The Register.

Ronacher, a prolific Python contributor, remains a fan of the language. He credits Python's success to being both easy to learn and having an implementation that was easy to hack. And in its early years, Python didn't have a lot of competitors with those same characteristics, he said.



The hackability of the language enabled many of the projects that made it successful


"The hackability of the language enabled many of the projects that made it successful, such as Nu ..

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