Python's Future: A Global Perspective

I love Python.<p>But we're seeing a fundamental shift from desktop to mobile that's the same magnitude, if not greater, than the shift from desktop app to web. And the Python community, by and large, doesn't seem to care.<p>I think Python is such an elegant language and deserves to be more than the glue that holds together UNIX-based systems.

&#62; <i>We also made a fairly major misstep when we failed to appropriately advertise the addition of directory and zipfile execution support in Python 2.6</i><p>Agreed. I've been working high and low with python for years and I <i>did not know</i> it could do that:<p>&#62; <i>bundle your code with all its dependencies except Python into a directory or zipfile and add a __main__.py file and the Python interpreter will execute it as if it was a script.</i>