I've been holding out for a while on moving to 3. I have tried every 3 release and always found issues or performance regressions. Like others have said here it

I've been holding out for a while on moving to 3. I have tried every 3 release and always found issues or performance regressions. Like others have said here it's a concern about the performance issues, Python is already slow. It's an even harder sell when - all major (and equally important, the long tail of minor) libraries support 2 - CPython2 has the performance advantage in most (if not all) applications - virtually every 3rd party implementation supports it very well (PyPy in particular) - Python2 already supported unicode, so that gets old to hear about - Most of the new features are available as backports - Some new features are absurd, like the new 4th string formatting method in 3.6 People shouldn't openly wonder why someone uses 2 instead of 3 if you really look at it. I just started a new 3.5 project because while I gave 3.0-3.4 a shot, 3.5 hasn't had its runthrough yet. Most people in my shoes have more than likely moved on from Python to Go. I'd like to have this be the one and stop going back to 2.7. Admittedly patience is running on fumes after ~8 years of testing CPython3 releases. It wasn't just a bad break, it seems like it was a sloppy break. Instead of feature bloat, I'd like to see Python3 focus on performance.