Brett Cannon (our unofficial ambassador to the Python community) is here to help alleviate our pip install anxiety. Along the way, we ask him about Python 4, removing the GIL, what he thinks about Chris Lattner’s Mojo project, Rust in the Python world & way more (of course).

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Featuring:

• Brett Cannon – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• In response to the Changelog #526
• Raku
• Perl Mongers
• pipx
• Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe
• Mojo.🔥
• Why Mojo
• Astral
• RustPython: A Python Interpreter written in Rust

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!