we're done here

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Random highlight from time at @heroku was working on the Python launch with @_adamwiggins_. I remember the wrestling back and forth on the blog post and how to do it. The conversation with Adam was invigorating, while a Rubyist he really appreciated certain things about the community and Python. But we were a Ruby product and came out of the Ruby community. Does supporting Python look like we're selling out, and yet of course we were doing this, but how do we do it well for everyone. And we wanted to truly welcome the Python community in. At the time there were about 5 other "Heroku for Python" newer entrants in the market. It was great to see other Heroku for X, but also they probably didn't expect us to make the leap we did as fast as we did. I personally reached out to each of them ahead of time to let them know what we were launching. We considered even hiring a few of them to help lead/drive Python on Heroku. It was older Microsoft playbook, if you're going into a space tell partners and other in the space to give a warning. RDS even did it the other direction to us about Postgres. A small detour, a thing I loved that we did, we "leaked" the Python support on HN. Our original plan was Python was going to be around the 3rd new language, it was ready to go. But because of some conference and other things the schedule for launching it slipped about 4 months. But the buildpack was live, if you shipped a requirements.txt file you got: ... Python app detected ... Yet the HN comments every month were "I hacked Heroku and got a Python app running". I smiled every time I saw it. Back on course. In the end we wrote a mini love letter to Python. These words took hours upon hours, but every minute was worth it. Being one of the few Python folks in Heroku, can't speak highly enough of how when @_adamwiggins_ pours himself into something. From the post: It emphasizes readability, minimizes “magic,” treats documentation as a first-class concern, and has a tradition of well-tested, backward-compatible releases in both the core language and its ecosystem of libraries. It blends approachability for beginners with maintainability for large projects, which has enabled its presence in fields as diverse as scientific computing, video games, systems automation, and the web.