Episode 28: 2025 In Review

About this episode

The episode reviews the highlights and lowlights of the year 2025 in Python development.

Let's take a breather from heavy content and take a look back at last year in this light but spicy episode! The good, the less good, and the disgusting. All that in barely an hour! ## Timestamps (00:00:00) INTRO (00:01:32) Pablo Galindo SPACE (00:06:20) PART 1: 2025 - the good, the uncertain, and the disgusting (00:07:06) Good: free threading (00:15:34) Good: remote debugging (00:17:31) Good: Python Installation Manager on Windows (00:19:44) The juicy bits (00:20:12) Uncertain: the JIT (00:21:04) Uncertain: Steering Council elections (00:25:01) Uncertain: another type checker (00:28:57) The TIOBE index (00:34:03) Mojo (00:38:12) Underinvestment (00:44:53) The Future (00:56:41) PART 2: PR OF THE WEEK (01:05:32) PART 3: WHAT'S GOING ON IN CPYTHON (01:08:00) Performance (01:11:47) Free threading (01:14:04) OUTRO

People in this episode

Hosts: Pablo Galindo, Łukasz Langa

Topics covered

• 2025 review
• Python updates
• software development
• performance
• future of Python

Keywords

• Python
• 2025
• free threading
• remote debugging
• JIT
• Steering Council
• TIOBE index

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