Pretentiousness seems, at worst, annoying. At best, I'm thrilled that there are people who 'overthink' things. Every technology that I use is the result of someone who took something 'too seriously', especially the open source ones.

For a concrete example, how pretentious was Wes Mckinney to build Pandas?

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