--- title: Keynote: Core.py with Guido van Rossum - Pablo Galindo... description: A live keynote recording of the core.py podcast featuring Guido van Rossum, Python's creator, in conversation with Pablo Galindo Salgado and Łukasz Langa at a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/keynote-core-py-with-guido-van-rossum---pablo-galindo-salgado-ukasz-langa-popc9b3og twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Keynote: Core.py with Guido van Rossum - Pablo Galindo Salgado, Łukasz Langa | daily.dev og:description: A live keynote recording of the core.py podcast featuring Guido van Rossum, Python's creator, in conversation with Pablo Galindo Salgado and Łukasz Langa at a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/keynote-core-py-with-guido-van-rossum---pablo-galindo-salgado-ukasz-langa-popc9b3og og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PopC9B3oG.png og:image:alt: Keynote: Core.py with Guido van Rossum - Pablo Galindo Salgado, Łukasz Langa og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Keynote: Core.py with Guido van Rossum - Pablo Galindo Salgado, Łukasz Langa **[EuroPython Conference](https://daily.dev/sources/europython)** · 43 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A live keynote recording of the core.py podcast featuring Guido van Rossum, Python's creator, in conversation with Pablo Galindo Salgado and Łukasz Langa at a Python conference. Topics range from Guido's math olympiad background and early Python history, to his change of heart on static typing, the origins of Python's type annotation system, a humorous demo of a fake 'perchance' keyword, reflections on the Growl web browser experiment, code review tool history (Mondrian/Rietveld), aesthetics in programming language design, VS Code vs Emacs, and personal anecdotes about fame and music. Guido closes by expressing relief that AI was never brought up. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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