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Discussion on: Guido van Rossum steps down as Python's BDFL, thoughts?

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The core team is pretty strong and Python has a lot of interest from big companies.

In 2010 they were even talking about merging a branch of Python created by Google into the mainline: python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/ and Guido himself worked for Google for a while, now he works at Dropbox: techcrunch.com/2012/12/07/dropbox-...

As Guido hints the core team is pretty independent from himself. I like the idea of democratizing a little bit more the PEP governance, which could also help in lowering the burnout for a single individual in charge.