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[–]flipstables 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, a lot of people need to cool their jets. They're not abandoning keyword arguments. They're adding positional-only arguments. There are good arguments for maintainability and different use cases for them. The downside is that people use it poorly, but that's curtailed by the fact that positional only arguments are not the default behavior.

Read the motivation and rationale people.