I plan to cut the dependency on Python; the post called "the riskiest part of the project" which I linked describes that. http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/04/

I plan to cut the dependency on Python; the post called "the riskiest part of the project" which I linked describes that. http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/04/08.html http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/04/08.html There are some detail here in these posts: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=opy#opy http://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=opy#opy FWIW, Oil was in Python 3 at one point! But I ported it back to Python 2. There were a number of reasons, but unicode handling is one of them. See this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/7elxlv/python_3_and_firefox_57_an_observation/dq6ixqu/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/7elxl... Summary: The shell deals with strings from file systems, and file systems inherently have no encoding. So Python 3's model of unicode doesn't help with such programs. It just makes things more awkward.