It is 30+ years old with all the baggage you would expect. It’s very much a product of its time.

9dev 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s not like that cannot be changed. Look at PHP, which managed to evolve brilliantly over the last decade and gets tons of things right now.

	▲	snitty 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I keep on hearing people be excited about PHP. Having first attempted to use PHP in early 00s, I simply cannot bring myself to attempt it again. I once had to rewrite large chunks of a site because it simply couldn't deal with the fact that a string had an apostrophe in it.
	▲	thayne 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		PHP has evolved a lot, but it also still has a lot of cruft from its earlier days. And it has made breaking changes on a scale python probably couldn't get away with.

Python 3(000) was an opportunity to fix all the things, so in a sense, the modern Python is less than 20 years old.