Quote of the week

For me, Python is primarily an orchestration language. It is the language for the code that is telling everything else what to do. If my Python code is an overall performance bottleneck, then "Huzzah!", as it means I have finally engineered all the other structural bottlenecks out of the system.

For this use case, monkey patching is not an incidental feature to be tolerated merely for backwards compatibility reasons: it is a key capability that makes Python an ideal language for me, as it takes ultimate control of what dependencies do away from the original author and places it in my hands as the system integrator. This is a dangerous power, not to be used lightly, but it also grants me the ability to work around critical bugs in dependencies at run time, rather than having to fork and patch the source the way Java developers tend to do.