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well, I'm very sorry you wished we stopped supporting our users, but this is the reality which we'll be stuck in for a while. python 3 adoption has been speedin
by fijal 10y ago
well, I'm very sorry you wished we stopped supporting our users, but this is the reality which we'll be stuck in for a while. python 3 adoption has been speeding up, but still the vast majority of old big projects are based in python 2 and those are potential uses for pypy.
- sontek 10y agoAlthough I disagree with the sentiment that PyPy2/Python2 should die, I also disagree with the PyPy team treating PY3 as a second class citizen. For this release PyPy2 shipped with binaries for 11 platforms, PyPy3 shipped with 1.
- mattip 10y agoMozilla helped to solve this problem and one is orogress. Please encourage your company to donate to ooen source in general (maybe it already does?) and to PyPy in particular
- sontek 10y agoThanks for the sentiment. We are major sponsors of PyCon and have donated to PyPy. What I'm trying to suggest is that the amount they've received to support Python 3 ($250,000 from Mozilla, $66,677 in public donations) is signal that there is major demand for this. Could they use the infra that is building binaries for PyPy2 for PyPy3? I understand where they are coming from "Existing project are using Python2" but I'd like to see them focus more on the future. I love what PyPy is doing and I want them to succeed but I can't imagine their success coming out of Python2. I see them more competing with more modern performant languages that are currently stealing from Python (i.e Go/Rust). If they focused on the future they could directly compete in that market of projects that are rewriting in other languages for performance.
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