noon-raccoon

I'm building a pet project for a local community, and I need to send emails - potentially thousands of them. The project won't be commercial, so I'd like to spend as little money as possible. I'd also like to avoid hosting a custom SMTP server or dealing with all the setup.

It seems like there are quite a few email providers on the market, but I'm not sure whether my project would meet their requirements.

What would you recommend as a cheap and reliable(good deliverability) provider for transactional emails? What email providers do you use for pet projects?

Python was my main language for more than a decade. My unpopular opinion is that things started to go wrong with asyncio. It feels like a band-aid solution that required a whole new ecosystem to grow around it.

Typing was a good idea, but I feel like it was never fully completed. So we ended up with optional typing, which definitely helps with reading code, but that’s about it. I see many features being implemented to speed up execution, along with attempts — some successful — to overcome the GIL, but all of them look like really complex hacks to me.

Probably because of the PTSD from the Python 3 rollout, there will be no Python 4 that truly addresses the language’s problems.

Over the last few years, I’ve switched to Golang and TypeScript. I miss Python’s elegance, as well as quite a few libraries built for it, but I don’t like the direction the language is heading in. Am I being too pessimistic?