[swift-evolution] Proposal: Introduce User-defined "Dynamic Member Lookup" Types

[Tino Heth]

> This is a bridge to allow easy access to the vast number of libraries that currently exist in those dynamic language domains, and to ease the transition of the multitudes of those programmers into Swift.

I’ve read several posts that gave me the impression that Python has a huge user base of people who are tired of using that language (the cited statement is just an arbitrary pick)… but is that actually true?
Afaik, Python never became as common as Java, C# or C++, and it never had much support from big companies — people decided to use Python not because it’s some sort of standard, but because they liked it and found it to be a language that’s easy to learn.

So the whole story of „let’s make it easier for those poor Python guys to switch to a real language“ sounds very much like hubris to me.
Of course, that statement is an exaggeration, but still:
Did anyone ever ask the Python-community who actually wants to switch to Swift? I don’t think there would be enough positive feedback to take it as a justification for the proposed changes.

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