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>The reason Python 3 is on the back burner is that there simply isn't a large enough audience right now. Funnily enough the reason I haven't adopted using PyPy
by poooogles 11y ago
>The reason Python 3 is on the back burner is that there simply isn't a large enough audience right now.
Funnily enough the reason I haven't adopted using PyPy is down to their lack of Python3 support. I think you're underestimating the amount of people using Python3.
- cglace 11y agoI think he means not enough companies willing to sponsor python 3 support.
- coldtea 11y agoPip statistics tells us they're not that many.
- collinmanderson 11y agoDo you have any recent statistics? I'm guessing that most people who use Python 3 are using recent versions of pip that have caching built in, so that may skew the results a bit.
- coldtea 11y agoFrom this (last year), Python 2.6 is bigger than 3: https://caremad.io/2015/04/a-year-of-pypi-downloads/ https://caremad.io/2015/04/a-year-of-pypi-downloads/ >I'm guessing that most people who use Python 3 are using recent versions of pip that have caching built in, so that may skew the results a bit. Since pip updates itself too, why wouldn't people using Python 2 also have newer versions?
- collinmanderson 11y agoI'm guessing a lot of people who are stuck on Python 2.6 are also stuck on old versions of pip.