Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/933183/

A
series of blog posts from the 2023 Python Language Summit has been
posted; topics covered include the C API, the global interpreter lock,
the standard library, and a talk on burnout from Guido van Rossum:

The first known case of burnout in the field of open-source
software, van Rossum speculated, may have been Charles Babbage, who
gave up the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (the “Chair
of Newton”) at Cambridge University in 1839.