People will surrender all ownership if you can provide more content more cheaper and conveniently, ownership is much lower on most people's priority than convenience
GILless python is a good point it makes python scaling alot better. Though every python service ive maintained or created in the long term I always wish I never used python. I understand the calculus though for using the python, reason feels somewhat outdated in the modern world of AI coding imo.
Actually as an aside how much of the code is created by AI
Actually to expand on this, you can kind of do the opposite, for example you can launder federated social media if that federated social also contains something people actually want. Then relying on network effect/cultural inertia to keep you relevant
Maybe not what you wanted but why did you pick Python and Flask? More interested in the flask part over say fastAPI. In companies that I worked for apps that use Flask always end up running into limitations with the framework and we end up having to build things on top of it. Obviously the biggest thing from what I remember Flask still uses wsgi ? so you kind of lack true async support.
Ive kind of noticed how we essentially use fancy tech to solve problems we already have solutions for.
What I find interesting about the framing of this, aswell as how docker is framed as a whole, is that its essentially just the argument for static linking (So some extent also deterministic builds). You can get alot of the benefits of "shipping your computer" without needing an OS that supports cgroups and all this other stuff. Containers existed for a long time until docker was able to essentially push it as a packaging format. Now yes containers ARE useful but I think what we were really doing was trying to get rid of distro dependency management, but we could only do it through the lens of a fancy new technology.
what why??