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How the Python team is adapting the language for an AI future (Ep. 593)

In part two of their conversation, Ben and Kyle chat with Python core developer and Steering Council member Pablo Galindo Salgado about balancing consistency and new features in language design, the importance of gathering community feedback on new iterations, and why he’s focused on making Python faster.

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In part two of their conversation, Ben and Kyle chat with Python core developer and Steering Council member Pablo Galindo Salgado about balancing consistency and new features in language design, the importance of gathering community feedback on new iterations, and why he’s focused on making Python faster.

Episode notes:

Pablo is a Python core developer, Steering Council member, and release manager of Python 3.10 and 3.11. He’s currently a senior software engineer at Bloomberg.

Looking for a comprehensive guide to contributing to Python? The Python Developer’s Guide is the place to start.

The Zen of Python is a list of the language’s guiding principles, including, “There should be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to do it.”

Find Pablo on LinkedIn, Twitter, and GitHub.

Find Kyle, a senior software engineer on Stack Overflow’s public platform, on Linked, Twitter, and GitHub.

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