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Any news on ESR? Since around 2020 it seems he went into complete radio silence.

I wonder if the recent improvements in Python performance would be enough to avoid the translation, if done today.

He's still around, I think. His homepage was last updated 2023.05.
I heard he shot himself in the pecker waking from a wet dream about Antifa activists forcing him to take the corona vaccine and consequentially mistaking his wiener for a tiny Mexican.

Or maybe I just dreamt it. Sounds about right either way, though.

I'm still writing code and shipping releases. I have a book in progress.

Yes, I've been quiet. I never really liked being Mr. Famous Guy; I did it tactically to achieve the mission of mainstreaming open source and gave it up as soon as I could.

Nice to know everything is OK. What will the book subject be?
I love the term "eyeball friction" when referring to Golang's error handling.
I've really, really tried to like GoLang. After 6 years of programming in it, I'm always looking for any opportunity to not use it. Anyone who's written a client library in Go will know what I'm talking about, it's incredibly inelegant. It's very hamstrung by the dedication "simple" which ironically leads to a lot of weird code (empty interfaces, etc) that's hard to explain for anyone not familiar with the language.