<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scholar.social/@khinsen" class="u-url mention">@<span>khinsen</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> isn&#39;t this a natural result of overspecialization and the fact that CS is needed in every branch of science nowadays? Do we expect that all scientists became computer scientists in addition to their own fields?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@AlSweigart" class="u-url mention">@<span>AlSweigart</span></a></span> </p><p>&quot;What are you pointing at?!&quot;</p><p>&quot;All of this!!!&quot; (arms maniacally waving in all directions).</p>

<p>I don&#39;t like to be negative about programming language stuff, but if your Python idea is, &quot;there&#39;s already a way to do this, but here&#39;s an idea for new syntax to do it with less typing&quot; then not only is it not a good idea, it&#39;s a bad idea.</p><p>That&#39;s how Python becomes Perl.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scholar.social/@khinsen" class="u-url mention">@<span>khinsen</span></a></span> I&#39;d add that I had already witnessed a lot of tool-centric answer-seeking user helplessness in scientific computing years before I ever discovered Python in the mid 90s. So, I was already pretty adverse to it when history seemed to be repeating itself.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sigkill" class="u-url mention">@<span>sigkill</span></a></span> it was really something to read the bio, yup</p><p>also hi! i still have the honest aws status page image saved :D :D</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson" class="u-url mention">@<span>gvwilson</span></a></span> Is the vision to be symbiotic with Rust? I mean, is it assumed that the extensions are also written in Rust?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://birdsite.space/users/Kahanis" class="u-url mention">@<span>Kahanis</span></a></span> misogynistic?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> ah yes, LTO witnesses</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> you’d think a “principal engineer at Microsoft” would be better at cross-org diplomacy…</p>