Python: The Documentary | An origin story

Описание: This is the story of the world's most beloved programming language: Python. What began as a side project in Amsterdam during the 1990s became the software powering artificial intelligence, data science and some of the world’s biggest companies. But Python's future wasn't certain; at one point it almost disappeared.

This 90-minute documentary features Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more, and they tell the story of Python’s rise, its community-driven evolution, the conflicts that almost tore it apart, and the language’s impact on... well… everything.

Thanks to our sponsors for making this documentary possible:
Anaconda: https://www.anaconda.com/ ‪‪@AnacondaInc.‬
Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/ ‪@Dropbox‬
Meta: https://opensource.fb.com/ ‪‪@FacebookOpenSource‬
OpenTeams: https://openteams.com/ ‪‪@openteams‬
PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ ‪‪@PyCharmIDE‬
Quansight: https://quansight.com/ ‪‪@quansight‬

And to all the amazing people who are featured:
Armin Ronacher, Barry Warsaw, Benjamin Peterson, Brett Cannon, Drew Houston, Guido van Rossum, Jessica McKellar, Ken Manheimer, Lambert Meertens, Lisa Guo, Lisa Roach, Mariatta Wijaya, Paul Everitt, Patrice Lyons, Peter Wang, Robin Friedrich, Robert Kahn, Sjoerd Mullender, Steven Pemberton, Tim O'Reilly, Ton Roosendaal, and Travis Oliphant.

Additional thanks to The Python Software Foundation and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI).

Picture of Guido at Dropbox by Dan Stroud from Squero (Brand and Creative Studio) Squero.com
Python comic (Import Antigravity) by xkcd: https://xkcd.com/353/
Clips used from Fun: A Python Love Story (2001): https://openbookproject.net/pybiblio/...

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Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:10 - ABC - the predecessor to Python
03:50 - The Amoeba system
05:26 - Guido creating Python
08:38 - Open source release
10:36 - A growing community
13:13 - Famous 1994 Workshop
16:04 - Corporation for National Research Initiatives
18:21 - Origins of the BDFL
19:48 - Early scientific Python community (Travis Oliphant)
21:45 - Importance of Python being open source (Blender)
24:03 - Early Python contributors and the importance of fun
25:25 - The Zen of Python
27:56 - Tumultuous start-up life
30:33 - Birth of the Python Software Foundation
31:58 - The community is the true strength of Python
34:39 - Growth: Web development (Dropbox)
37:28 - Growth: Data science (Anaconda)
41:23 - Dropbox hiring Guido
42:59 - Python 2 to 3
55:21 - "Python is for Girls"
58:30 - Mariatta's story
01:06:05 - Growth: AI/ML (Meta)
01:08:55 - Guido at PyCon
01:10:46 - The Walrus Operator
01:14:14 - Guido stepping down as BDFL
01:16:35 - "Can this work without Guido?" (Governance)
01:20:38 - Guido never expected Python's success
01:21:25 - Python has taken over the world
01:23:19 - Credits