Flask is now eight years old, and until recently, had been going along pretty steady state.

It had been hanging around at version 0.11 and 0.12 for some time.

After a year-long effort, the web framework has now been updated to Flask 1.0.

David Lord is here to share the big news with us.

He's the maintainer of Flask, and dive into the new features as well as the future

directions of flask with him. This is Talk Python to Me, episode 177 recorded August 30th, 2018.

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helps support the show. David, welcome to Talk Bylon. Hello. Thanks for having.

Hello. Yeah, it's great to have you here. It's really good to see lots of vibrant activity around

Flask, and I know you are at the heart of much of this activity, and I'm super excited about

diving into it with you. Yeah, let's get started. Yeah, for sure. And so we're going to dive into Flask and the news that Flask 1O is now out.

That's a big deal.

But let's get started with just your background.

How do you get into programming in Python?

Let's see.

So I've been programming most of my life.

I got into it probably around like second grade or so.

Got a book about HTML and started making websites.

Nice. Where I really started and what I thought I wanted to do,

and I think this is the story for a lot of people,

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