1/ I've seen this sentiment a few times recently, and it's making #pythonista me worried. I think our community is kind and friendly. But, I also think, "what community?" Python has lots of them, and it may be harder to navigate than R which is a lot more narrowly-focused. https://twitter.com/jdossgollin/status/1110217703955021824 …
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2/ Is this a problem? Where do things break down? What are your experiences? How can we it feel more welcoming?
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Replying to @generativist
When you try to contribute. There are absurd things in matplotlib and sklearn, but the main devs are quite defensive. So the project ossifies.
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Trying not to come across as defensive, but in like every other mpl dev call there's a discussion on getting rid of [thing everyone agrees is absurd] and then someone mentions [larger than you'd think] user base that critically relies on it. It's a tightrope for bigger projects.
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I think this is a huge part of it, too. Although R is getting a lot more production-ready credit lately, Python has had to serve a lot of often competing use cases for a long time.
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