> I'm still surprised that it's taken this long to finally close support. ... I interviewed at one of the top 5 investment banks for a software engineering ...

> I'm still surprised that it's taken this long to finally close support. ... I interviewed at one of the top 5 investment banks for a software engineering ... My first question was what their plans were in porting ... it was "on the roadmap". > Surely the Python core team are aware that teams like this exist in some of the largest companies in the world Why would you assume they considered their users? Maybe they went purely for some abstract purity with tenuous benefits and didn't actually speak to their stakeholders. Remember, the "D" in BDFL stands for "dictator".