Removing him as BDFL was probably the best thing to have happened to Python. He never prioritized performance as a top priority, at least not the same way Lua, JavaScript and Java did. Even Ruby has a JIT now.
> Removing him as BDFL was probably the best thing to have happened to Python. He never prioritized performance as a top priority
That doesn't follow; you're assuming that Python should prioritize performance as a top priority, which is very much not a given. Python has always excelled at being easy to use, being flexible, being a great glue language - but performant? An interpreted, dynamically typed language? That's like making a C interpreter - you can do it, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
His leadership & decision arbitration is dearly missing. Now we have decide by committee and as a result we see Python being pushed and pulled in all directions.
