Owen Hughes
| September 7, 2021 — 10:26 GMT (11:26 BST)
| Topic: Developer
Langa likens his role at Python to that of a janitor. It may not be cutting-edge work, but somebody’s got to do it to keep things moving forward.
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Running a project as big as Python is a huge undertaking. With more than a million lines of code, the programming language relies mainly on volunteers to keep it running and introduce new features.
But Python’s nature as a community-driven project brings its own share of problems. With thousands of independent programmers adding their own code to the project, bottlenecks are easy to accumulate and for issues to go unnoticed.
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Owen Hughes
| September 7, 2021 — 10:26 GMT (11:26 BST)
| Topic: Developer