He has been touting the superiority of his "white space" for years against much criticism from his peers.. Nobody buys these phony eleventh hour conversions after he has conveniently already stepped down as lead from his programming language of hate.

The thing about journalists is that they are usually irrational types who took classes in college that were no more difficult than your average high school course. Coders have to be intelligent, and good at analysis and problem solving. A person's feelings about a problem simply don't matter and you don't get points for zealotry or having the latest must have moral beliefs. It is kind of a funny joke to say that journalists should learn to code, but most are particularly ill-suited for it.

As much as that design decision is defended in the community, it is telling how little other languages wish to repeat it. I'm pretty much the same though. I use it anyway in some situations. I do tend to find myself beginning to steer clear of some of these projects when they start to become overly political.though.

While in an of itself, the terminology may not seem important, it is a strong indicator that Python leadership has grown vapid and useless. Sane stakeholders should start considering what other options might exist that could fill the same need.

And so it goes. All development processes come with a lot of hype, but the claims of productivity gains never seem to have any kind of robust analysis behind them. The studies always seem self-serving where some outcome is desired by participants and researchers. You would expect that a bunch of techies could do better than sociology academics, but seem to fall into the same pitfalls.

java is like c and c++ in that it is basically immortal at this point.

I think they can be be good if you don't use them exclusively. . My experience is you can't rely on them for filtering either companies or candidates naturally. You have to be very explicit about what you will accept and willing to say no a lot if they can't give you information. They will often negotiate on your behalf which can be useful since they frequently have a relationship with a company already. They often get information about openings early as well. They work best when you are picky and you treat the relationship like they are working for you.

Sometimes for me it is just moving on. When you are at a place for a while, you accumulate all this crap you have to deal with. It feels good just to think about the chronic issues that will never raise their head again.