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After almost 30 years of overseeing the development of the world's most popular language, Python, its founder and "Benevolent Dictator For Life" (BDFL), Guido van Rossum, has decided he would like to remove myself entirely from the decision process.[1][2]
Van Rossum isn't leaving Python[3] entirely. He said, "I'll still be there for a while as an ordinary core dev, and I'll still be available to mentor people -- possibly more available."
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It's clear from van Rossum's note he's sick and tired of running the organization. He wrote, "I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP (Python Enhancement Proposals) [PEP 572 Assignment Expressions[5]] and find that so many people despise (sic) my decisions."
In addition, van Rossum hint's he's not been well. "I''m not getting younger... (I'll spare you the list of medical issues.)" So, "I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL, and you all will be on your own."
What does that mean for Python's future? Good question. The nonprofit Python Software Foundation[6] over sees CPython[7], Python's reference implementation, but van Rossum is its president.
All van Rossum had to say on the matter is he's "not going to appoint a successor."
Where Python goes from here will be up to Python's core developers. Van Rossum asked: "So what are you all going to do? Create a democracy? Anarchy? A dictatorship? A federation?" Van Rossum continued, "I'm not worried about the day to day decisions in the issue tracker or on GitHub. Very