'The Complexity of Simplicity' - Christopher Neugebauer (PyCon AU 2023)

(Christopher Neugebauer) Quoth the Zen of Python: “Simple is better than complex”.

The Python community has long celebrated simplicity as a virtue, but Python has grown, the features that make Python simple in small programs don’t matter as much.

In this talk, we’ll explore how the Python community used to think about simplicity, how we think about simplicity now that Python is used for ever more complex tasks, and consider whether “simple is better than complex” is advice that Pythonistas can meaningfully follow.

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PyCon AU is the national conference for the Python programming community, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers, sysadmins and operations folk, students, educators, scientists, statisticians, and many others besides, all with a love for working with Python.

Sat Aug 19 12:00:00 2023 at Hall C (Plenary)