@profoundlynerdy That's really interesting to hear. I perceive python's popularity as coming from diametrically opposing sources - grassroots enthusiasm from a wide variety of geeks who found it to be useful. In my mind , the PyCon conference exemplified this: scrappy, inclusive, full of passionate nerds, run at cost by enthusiastic volunteers. Compared to previous establishment like Java or C++ conferences, which were very expensive corporate sales affairs.

@profoundlynerdy I agree with you @tartley with maybe one exception, the 500 PEPs about typing are caused by big corps using Python, unfortunately.