Hunting Black Swans With Bees: Catching Up With The Inimitable Russell Keith-Magee

<div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><h2>Summary</h2> <p>Russell Keith-Magee is an accomplished engineer and a fixture of the Python community. His work on the Beeware suite of projects is one of the most ambitious undertakings in the ecosystem and unfailingly forward-looking. With his recent transition to working for Anaconda he is now able to dedicate his full focus to the effort. In this episode he reflects on the journey that he has taken so far, how Beeware is helping to address some of the threats to Python&#8217;s long term viability, and how he envisions its future in light of the recent release of PyScript, an in-browser runtime for Python.</p> <h2>Announcements</h2> <ul> <li>Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python&#8217;s role in data and science.</li> <li>When you&#8217;re ready to launch your next app or want to try a project you hear about on the show, you&#8217;ll need somewhere to deploy it, so take a look at our friends over at Linode. Wit...