Comment by zem
because there is a ton of existing python code that people find a lot of value in, and that no one wants to abandon. the return on investment for making python better is insanely higher than that on porting hundreds of millions of lines of code to another language.
that’s why raku has modules like
and strong FFI (Foreign Function Interface) chopscertainly I see the economic sense in continuing with Python, but for some folks there’s a limit to how much lipstick you want on your pig