I am not sure it qualifies as flamebait. The situation may be a bit more nuanced. I first read some of the comments in this thread, then went and read his article, then came back here to read some more comments.
Charles Leifer (per his resume [1]) is a co-creator of readthedocs.org (where the docs for a lot of Python OSS projects are hosted), and of the PeeWee ORM (which I know of and have used a bit).
He also writes a lot of (technical) Python posts on his blog. I've read some of them in the past. Unlikely that a person like him would be interested in writing such a post as flamebait.
I'm guessing the post is describing his genuine thoughts / feelings (right or wrong) about Python's evolution of late, even if some of his points may not have been well-thought-out, per what I read from some comments here. I haven't gone into an analysis of what he wrote vs. the comments here, in depth. But I think we should cut him some slack, and not flag the post as flamebait. Just my 2c as a Pythonista and HNer.
I guess my characterization of "flamebait" was unfair in that it implies intent. I actually meant "inflammatory", because the post makes a huge deal out of what is, in my opinion, not really so bad.
I even agree that asyncio is a clusterfuck, but we're free to use Curio (which looks much better), and if you don't like how complicated type annotations make the language, don't use them. I agree that they've been bolted on rather clumsily (having to import the type system feels weird), but it's nowhere near as big a deal as the author makes of it, and I feel the post makes mountains out of molehills.
I am not sure it qualifies as flamebait. The situation may be a bit more nuanced. I first read some of the comments in this thread, then went and read his article, then came back here to read some more comments.
Charles Leifer (per his resume [1]) is a co-creator of readthedocs.org (where the docs for a lot of Python OSS projects are hosted), and of the PeeWee ORM (which I know of and have used a bit).
[1] http://media.charlesleifer.com/blog/documents/resume.pdf
He also writes a lot of (technical) Python posts on his blog. I've read some of them in the past. Unlikely that a person like him would be interested in writing such a post as flamebait.
I'm guessing the post is describing his genuine thoughts / feelings (right or wrong) about Python's evolution of late, even if some of his points may not have been well-thought-out, per what I read from some comments here. I haven't gone into an analysis of what he wrote vs. the comments here, in depth. But I think we should cut him some slack, and not flag the post as flamebait. Just my 2c as a Pythonista and HNer.