If anything, things went the other way, with Van Rossum ending his retirement to take a new job in the industry.ĭid the kernel workflow effort begin to bear fruit, as predicted? That work has continued, and the community has gained some new infrastructure for dealing with patches outside of email.
The prediction about increasing retirements in the community explicitly said that little might happen in 2020, and that appears to be the case. Richard Stallman remains in charge (as expected), but the project gives every indication of being mostly on autopilot. As far as the public can see, at least, the discussion about the future of the GNU project appears to have faded away. The direction of the GNU Project was the subject of another prediction that did not really pan out as expected. Python governance may be happening without Guido, but the project’s leaders still listen to him. His championing of the PEP 622 pattern-matching mechanism shows that he still has strong ideas about where the language should go. In truth, founder Guido van Rossum has not been as absent as one might have thought, and he continues to have a strong say in the development direction of the language. The first prediction had to do with the Python project finding its path in a post-Guido world.
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