Guido van Rossum

Some are looking at stars in this galaxy, others are looking at galaxies.

The math is completely different, but the underlying libraries are still the same.

And so they exchange data

code they say well I wrote this Python program or I wrote a Python library to solve this class of problems and the other guys either say oh I can use that library too or if you make a few changes I can use that library too why start from scratch in Perl or JavaScript where there's not that infrastructure

for arrays of numbers, whereas in Python you have it.

And so more and more scientists at different places doing different work discovered Python, and then people who had an idea for an important new fundamental library decided, oh, Python is actually already known to our users, so...

Let's use Python as the user interface.

I imagine, at least, that's how TensorFlow ended up with Python as the user interface.

It was a very expensive product.

And so universities especially disliked it because it was a price per seat, I remember hearing.

I tend to like Python's approach to open source in particular because it's sort of, it's almost egalitarian.

There's little hierarchy.

There's obviously some because you all need to decide whether you drive on the left or the right side of the road sometimes.

But there is a lot of access for people with little power.

You don't have to work for a big tech company to make a difference in the Python world.

We have affordable events that really care about community and support people.

The community is like a big deal at our conferences and in the PSF.

When the PSF funds events, it's always about growing the community.

The PSF funds very little development.

They do some, but most of the money that the PSF forks out