Remote imports for Python?
Remote imports for Python?
Posted Sep 10, 2017 5:32 UTC (Sun) by Garak (guest, #99377)In reply to: Remote imports for Python? by jezuch
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What I'm thinking in response to your comment is that such arguments of trying to protect people from shooting themselves in the foot don't seem that persuasive to me. I see a vast diverse ecosystem of developers, and I'm personally not bothered by the DWA factor. The news industry won't let the DWA factor fade, they'll just add another lense to that microscope and give people the entertaining idiot story to laugh at or be scared of for a moment.
Of course the example that comes to mind above is bannning swimming pools to save children because of course some parents who choose to have pools will fail, and kids will die. Somehow, for reasons I couldn't map out in a thesis, I'm more worried about the swimming pools than the dangers being talked about here if the feature gets added. And I've been able to swim for 3 decades now. I mean seriously, there will always be ways for software developers and businesses that rely on them to metaphorically shoot themselves in the foot. I don't see this as significantly effecting that in the long term. But OTOH, the obvious FOSS answer is - Fork Python if you care enough. Let the fittest thrive the most in the ecosystem. Somehow I doubt anyone cares about this feature that much. But it made for some sensationalist reaction commentary with academic entertainment value.