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Web devs, same reason asyncio got railroaded through.

Python is increasingly trying to cater to the extremely online and loud webdev crowd. Living in an ivory tower is fine if you're inside it.

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At first glance this is a pretty odd take, would you mind elaborating? I wouldn't say Python devs and web devs have any more overlap than web devs and some other random group of devs you could select, so why is it the case here? It's always easy to say that it's [outgroup]'s fault that [ingroup] is going sour, but is it really the case?

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