Guido van Rossum

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming · 26 Nov 2022 podcast

I mean, if at age 16 you learn coding in C,

And by the time you're 26, C is like a dead language.

Then there's still time to switch.

There's probably some kind of survivor bias or whatever it's called in sort of your observation that you pick a camp because there are many different camps to pick.

And if you pick .NET, then you can coast for the rest of your life because that technology is now so ubiquitous, of course, that even if it's bound to die, it's going to take a very long time.

It's also still evolving quite a bit.

I mean...

That is not a sort of a fossilizing community.

Yes.

They are doing great innovative work, actually.

A lot.

But their innovations are hard to follow if you're not already a hardcore C++ user.

And there's not a single answer, right?

Because depending on how much time you have to learn new stuff,

where you are in your life, what you're currently working on, who you want to work with, what communities you like.

There's not one right choice.

Maybe if you sort of, if you can look back 20 years, you can say, well, that whole detour through action script was a waste of time.

But nobody could know that.

So you can't beat yourself up over that.

you just need to accept that not every choice you make is going to be perfect.

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