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Re:15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python by martinky24 on Saturday April 19, 2025 @09:51AM (#43736408)
What exactly is the own goal here…? They’re making the language better in the upcoming release. This is how normal software works.

In no world is this an “own goal”. God forbid they take on a big task for the betterment of the future language.

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Re:15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python by sitkack on Saturday April 19, 2025 @12:12PM (#43737354)
I don’t think you understand the whole issue of why spaCy can’t move to Python 3.13

God forbid.

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Re:15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday April 19, 2025 @02:47PM (#43738516)
> What exactly is the own goal here…? They’re making the language better in the upcoming release. This is how normal software works.

Backward incompatible changes are an own goal because they either (depending on your view) make the software worse, or make it better and then make those improvements unavailable to users.

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