Episode 15: Core sprint at Meta

Over 40 core developers spent a week in Bellevue WA putting finishing touches on Python 3.13, planning, prototyping, and implementing features for Python 3.14. We talked to half of them. We laughed, we cried. We were happy watching graphs go up, and sad watching them go down. It was intense. There was even cake, no joke!## Timestamps(00:00:00) INTRO(00:02:05) PART 1: THE CAKE IS NOT A LIE(00:04:09) Interview with sprint organizer Itamar Oren(00:07:48) Surprise waffle machine(00:08:36) PART 2: DEVELOPERS IN THEIR OWN WORDS(00:08:47) Brandt Bucher(00:10:49) Tian Gao(00:12:31) Hugo van Kemenade(00:16:35) Thomas Wow-ters(00:24:08) Yury Selivanov(00:29:33) Mark Shannon(00:30:56) Raymond Hettinger(00:32:06) Russell Keith-Magee(00:33:18) Mariatta(00:41:41) Larry Hastings(00:46:07) Barry Warsaw(00:53:10) Jelle Zijlstra(00:56:20) Alex Waygood(00:57:39) Gregory P. Smith(01:04:08) Petr Viktorin(01:04:49) Emily Morehouse-Valcarcel(01:08:27) Interlude: Łukasz was right for once(01:09:28) Lysandros Nikolaou(01:17:38) Dino Viehland(01:23:22) Carl Meyer(01:24:29) Eric Smith(01:32:00) Eric Snow(01:41:46) Janitor 1(01:50:01) Janitor 2(01:53:03) OUTRO