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		JAlexoid on Nov 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft A few seconds here and a few seconds there - it's death by a thousand papercuts. There's no community consensus - that keeps Python from advancing to where it needs to be. I said it once and I'll say it again - Python lacks mature tooling.

Dylan16807 on Nov 13, 2020 [–]

You can't have death by a thousand papercuts when there are exactly three delay-papercuts adjacent to a step that takes a significant amount of time.

There are contexts where little delays matter, and you didn't pick one of those.

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