“The Features and Futures of the Python Programming
Language”
Willison:
Would you say that a lot of the interesting work
and excitement that’s going on now in Python, or more of it at
least than in the past, is on the application side? That is,
applications of Python rather than new features of
Python?
van Rossum:
Yes. My own perception of that is somewhat colored by
where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about
changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries. But
I see an enormous amount of stuff going on where people are
just developing very exciting applications. I think Zope is
probably the prime example at the moment.”