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From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 17:52:32 -0400
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Subject: Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
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On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 12:48=E2=80=AFPM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef=
.nl>
wrote:

> Afaict, there's a significant part of our current community who feel the
> same way (and I'm pretty sure every sub-30 year old person who
> newly joins the community would feel the exact same way too).
>

Those young-uns are also the same group who hold their nose when coding in
C, and are always clamoring for rewriting Postgres in Rust. And before
that, C++. And next year, some other popular language that is clearly
better and more popular than C.

And I agree with Robbert that Python seems like the best choice for this
> other language, given its current popularity level. But as I said
> before, I'm open to other languages as well.
>

Despite my previous posts, I am open to other languages too, including
Python, but the onus is really on the new language promoters to prove that
the very large amount of time and trouble is worth it, and worth it for
language X.

Cheers,
Greg

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr">On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 12:48=E2=80=AFPM =
Jelte Fennema-Nio &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:postgres@jeltef.nl">postgres@jeltef=
.nl</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D=
"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(2=
04,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Afaict, there&#39;s a significant part of our=
 current community who feel the same way (and I&#39;m pretty sure every sub=
-30 year old person who<br>
newly joins the community would feel the exact same way too).<br></blockquo=
te><div><br></div><div>Those young-uns are also the same group who hold the=
ir nose when coding in C, and are always clamoring for rewriting Postgres i=
n Rust. And before that, C++. And next year, some other popular language th=
at is clearly better and more popular than C.</div><div><br></div><blockquo=
te class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px =
solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">And I agree with Robbert that Pyth=
on seems like the best choice for this other language, given its current po=
pularity level. But as I said<br>
before, I&#39;m open to other languages as well.<br></blockquote><div><br><=
/div><div>Despite my previous posts, I am open to other languages too, incl=
uding Python, but the onus is really on the new language promoters to prove=
 that the very large amount of time and trouble is worth it, and worth it f=
or language X.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Greg</div><div><b=
r></div></div></div>

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