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A very good piece, that I enjoyed. But, I do get the impression that many of these more esoteric features, when reading a code-base, actually end up obscuring the developer's intention, and impair understanding. Without very competent IDE tooling, trying to work out what's happening in a piece of code is extremely difficult. It's turtles all the way down, and there's a lot more turtles now. A number of the new features, appreciated by many for good reason, tend to work against the Zen of Python which at some level explained the meteoric rise of Python as a bona fide implementation language over the last 30 years - simple, obvious, effective and practical.


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