On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Deborah Swanson <pyt...@deborahswanson.net> wrote: > So perhaps now you might be agreeing with me that investing in Windows > and Visual Studio now is a shortsighted move that will likely result in > long term grief for Python? Maybe reconsidering it?
Not at all. I never said Windows wasn't important - just that it isn't secure. Having Python able to run on Windows is a HUGE benefit for the people who use Windows. Obviously it has a cost, and a quite significant one, but it's not a bad decision on the part of the Python core devs. But if Windows were to die a quiet death (or, as some have predicted, progressively morph into being a skin atop Linux, and then get spun off as an open source project while Microsoft concentrates on Azure), it would in my opinion be a great boon for the world. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
