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Oh my gosh! Gleam got #2 most admired programming language in the Stack Overflow survey! We're on the podium with Rust and Elixir!

Programming, scripting, and markup languages

Rust is yet again the most admired programming language (72%), followed by Gleam (70%), Elixir (66%) and Zig (64%). Gleam is a new addition to the list, and for good reason - developers like it!
Which programming, scripting, and markup languages have you done extensive development work in over the past year, and which do you want to work in over the next year? (If you both worked with the language and want to continue to do so, please check both boxes in that row.)

I've been struggling to find Gleam sponsorship in recent months, growth has stalled. Does anyone have ideas for ways to get more funding that won't steal all my time away from important Gleam development?

We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust. From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!

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I'm enjoying this feature of uv way too much for quickly figuring out APIs work. I do this all the time now when reviewing code and having to quickly find out how edge cases behave.

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#Git mini tip: Use `git rebase -x` to execute a command after each rebased commit. Useful to run linters, formatters, or tests to check that each commit passes individually.

Terminal window showing `git rebase main -x pytest`

Do I know any design-y minded folks that might be interested in a OSS contribution by way of a cute lil logo for lustre 👀🥺

This is huge news! The python-build-standalone project is officially moving under Astral's leadership. They were the basis of Rye, they are what uv fetches, and they are probably one of the best hidden secrets in the Python community that already drive tons of workflows. astral.sh/blog/python-...

A new home for python-build-standalone

Astral is taking stewardship of python-build-standalone, Gregory Szorc's foundational project for installing portable Python distributions.

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There's now enough people from Python here that I have picked up my tradition of calling people out to justify why something related to Python -- and especially packaging -- "sucks" when no reason is given.