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...and then there's Mega Large orgs, like Google, who are used to maintaining their own software. I am super curious what Google will do. The thing to watch is
by collinmanderson 9y ago
...and then there's Mega Large orgs, like Google, who are used to maintaining their own software.
I am super curious what Google will do. The thing to watch is whether Chrome/Chromium (and therefore Node.js) can ever be built without using Python 2.7.
- joshuamorton 9y agoMega large orgs have already moved, in some cases. They have the advantage of being able to throw significant resources into infrastructure to make switching easy.
- collinmanderson 9y agoI'm thinking about Google, Mozilla, Dropbox, etc. They still use a lot of Python 2.
- joshuamorton 9y agoIndeed, on the other hand facebook has (mostly/significantly) moved to py3, Google is chugging in that direction at a feverish pace, etc.
- rankam 9y agoGoogle created Golang and then created a tool to convert Python2 -> Go. https://github.com/google/grumpy https://github.com/google/grumpy
- collinmanderson 9y agoThat grumpy project seems to have stalled in the last 6 months. I feel like Google hasn't made much progress converting away from Python 2. Python 2.7 is still required to build Chrome, for example, and I don't think there are any plans to change that. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=61357 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=61357 And, I believe they use 2.7 whenever they use TensorFlow.