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Why are you a Python 2 holdout? What are you holding out for?
by malcolmgreaves 9y ago
Why are you a Python 2 holdout? What are you holding out for?
- mattbillenstein 9y agoEarly adopters are beta testers ;) I think until about 2014 (3.4) Python 3 just wasn't really ready. Then maybe it took another two years for library and tooling support to firm up around that. In 2016 I did start a new project, but a mix of familiarity and gevent support kept me on 2.7. Also, until recently the runtime had no real advantage over 2.7, but there have been some incremental improvements (dict shared keys and so forth) that are a win you get in Python 3 for free basically. Working on a new project in 3.6 now and it's looking good so far.