Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.