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Lektor looks really cool. For the life of me I don't understand why it's only in Python 2.7 though.

• jsmthrowaway 11y ago
  Armin has historically been one of the most vocal of those critical of Python 3, and has even compared it to XHTML. He was pressured into porting Jinja2 and it cooled him on Python, if you read older posts of his. The answer should be pretty clear when you notice that Lektor fails on a print() not having parentheses (and not, say, a dependency). Unicode in Python 3 is his problem, and there was one post I can't find on mobile where he started ranting about POSIX and Unix for some unclear reason. I can't follow him on a lot of it, as much as I respect his work, because if you read objectively it's pretty clear the reasoning is often there to support a predisposition. Meanwhile, my whole stack is Python 3 and I'm having a grand old time less the pieces where I had to sub in shittier libraries, and not a single problem Armin has ever raised about Python 3 has hit us. Not one. Most of it boils down to Unicode issues that have been issues outside of Python for 20 years. This isn't to say Python 3 is perfect. (Far from it.) He also often writes what I like to call the "Alex Gaynor Conclusion," which is tediously enumerating in the conclusion why you're going to call him wrong in his opinions which somewhat minimizes effectively disagreeing with him. There is a subculture of people who do this, and it mildly bugs me. Nothing against him; just an observation. Anyway, port it and drop a patch, and I'll buy you scotch. I know better than to make any request other than that, and it's cooled me on using Armin's software in general (to my disappointment; Armin's Web stack has been a trusted friend through four different employers, from Werkzeug on up, and it's a massive bummer to see Lektor confirm suspicion).