What Python Can Learn From Other Languages
Python is great! It's been a mainstay of web development and systems programming for decades and is on the cutting edge of many fields like scientific computing. But there is always more to improve, both in the language itself and how we use it. This talk will look at how ideas and features from other languages like Ruby, Go, and PHP could be used to improve Python!
From PHP autoloaders to Goroutines, there's many features in the world of programming languages that Python lacks. This talk will outline many features from other language communities that could be used both to improve existing codebases and, more deeply, to improve and evolve Python itself.
Noah Kantrowitz is a web developer turned infrastructure automation enthusiast, and all around engineering rabble-rouser. By day he runs infrastructure at Geomagical/IKEA and by night he makes candy and stickers. He is an active member of the DevOps community, and enjoys merge commits, cat pictures, and beards.