What's in a name?

Posted Dec 6, 2025 15:59 UTC (Sat) by ssokolow (guest, #94568)
In reply to: What's in a name? by rrolls
Parent article: Eventual Rust in CPython

So my stance is very much: leave CPython alone, please and thank you.

Given that the people who opened the discussion were "two of Python's core developers", and you're not paying them, one could argue that the "fair and kind" way to "leave CPython alone" would be to just abandon it and mass-exodus to some kind of "NeoPython" fork, like how LibreOffice came to be when Oracle bought OpenOffice.org, leaving people like you free to take up maintainership of CPython.

It's their project and they're free to do whatever they feel is best... especially if they're not getting paid to do it. You're free to fork the last version you like. That's the FLOSS social contract.

(It's not as if Microsoft was obligated to continue supporting Windows 98 SE or Windows XP or Windows 7, and it's not as if the Linux kernel would have been obligated to keep Firewire support if not for someone stepping up to maintain it.)