PYCON UK 2025 Friday Keynote: Python's True Superpower, Hynek Schlawack

Python appears to be everywhere nowadays! How did it happen, that a language that almost died in the Python 2 to 3 process is now the default choice when people talk about programming? There must be some secret superpower and I think I found it! Python appears to be everywhere nowadays! How did it happen, that a language that almost died in the Python 2 to 3 process is now the lingua franca a default choice when people talk about programming? There must be some secret superpower and I think I found it! Hynek Schlawack is a lead infrastructure and software engineer from Berlin/Germany, PSF fellow, blogger, YouTuber, and maintainer of way too many open source projects. He’s been using Python since 2009 and has seen it all.