Python: The Documentary – An origin story [video] (youtube.com)

180 points by CharlesW 10mo ago ↗ HN

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Guido van Rossum revisits Python's life in a new documentary - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45055272 - August 2025

gabrielsroka 10mo ago ↗

I love Python. I love documentaries. I love computing history. I did not love this.

HuwFulcher 10mo ago ↗

Care to elaborate why?

toastercat 10mo ago ↗

Yeah, there's something about Honeypot (or I guess CultRepo now) documentaries that rub me the wrong way. Sometimes it feels like an over-glorification of the subject matter, sometimes it's the slick editing and music choices that remind me of corny biopic films. I get that it's trying to be engaging to not just technical people though.

linsomniac 10mo ago ↗

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45058171

gabrielsroka 10mo ago ↗

Weird. I made my comment here 4 days ago, but it says 19 hours ago. Maybe it's the second chance pool.

So I think the other one is a dupe of this one. Look at the ID numbers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=gabrielsroka

webdevver 10mo ago ↗

haven't watched it yet - how does this stack up against the react documentary?

fnord123 10mo ago ↗

It's not as good as the Java Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnqAXuLZlaE

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kh_hk 10mo ago ↗

Nothing compares to Erlang: the movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIjfIjssLE

mdaniel 10mo ago ↗

we need a whole submission dedicated to these, as this thread is just stellar

jp0d 10mo ago ↗

Thanks for sharing this.

ubercore 10mo ago ↗

Saw a preview of this at EuroPython. Best part was Guido's pragmatism on making Python more inclusive. Paraphrasing a bit from memory "It's a hard problem, but problems have solutions."

rbanffy 10mo ago ↗

I really enjoyed seeing Guido traveling through time while answering a single question.