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Lack of ROI (return on investment) is why people stay on Python 2

• no_wizard 10y ago
  Then why hold everyone else back if you aren't willing to push forward? At least with new projects it'd be great if people used Python 3. Google's choice with Grumpy particularly astounds me. Why 2.7? Its not clear to me and in fact, its really unclear to me, why that was a 'better' choice.
  • dragonwriter 10y ago
    > Google's choice with Grumpy particularly astounds me. Why 2.7? Probably because Google has a lot of legact Python 2.7, and doesn't do new greenfield development in Python 3, preferring other languages (particularly Go), so... Projects made to scratch the maker's own itch are good in that they get thoroughly dogfooded, but they also can carry a focus that reflects the creator's needs more than anyone else's.
  • takeda 10y ago
    Grumpy looks to me like it was created as a bridge to port everything to Go. If you look at it from that perspective and know that Google has a lot of existing python 2 code base, it makes a lot of sense. If they wanted to stick with python, instead of grumpy, they would instead provide a way to write python modules in go.