Python: The Documentary

Seventeen years ago, I was sick and tired of Java and its false promises, not just the language itself, but the way software was being crafted around it. Heavy application servers, endless XML, over-engineered abstractions… everything felt slower than it needed to be. Development was ceremony first, clarity second.

Back then, Python was still something of a newborn in the “serious applications” space. It was widely respected in system administration and scripting, but not yet seen as a first-class choice for large systems. That perception changed for me thanks to my friend Hugo (EA1GIY), who was already defending Python’s use in bigger university projects and showing me that it could scale in both complexity and ambition.

I took the leap, and I never looked back.

Since then, Python has grown from a “scripting language” to a dominant force across web, data, automation, networking and distributed systems. Recently, I’ve also embraced Rust, but not as a replacement. Instead, I combine both worlds using tools like Maturin and PyO3, getting Rust’s performance and safety where it matters, while keeping Python’s expressiveness and speed of development.

This documentary captures that journey beautifully, not just the evolution of a language, but the evolution of a mindset around how software should be built.

Hope you will enjoy it like I did.

73 DE EA1HET . .