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It's almost as if the Python Software Foundation isn't capable of killing the Python 2 language unilaterally without the Python community's consent.
by lidHanteyk 7y ago
It's almost as if the Python Software Foundation isn't capable of killing the Python 2 language unilaterally without the Python community's consent.
- diminoten 7y agoIt's almost as if people were given 12 fucking years (or admittedly fewer, depending on when your favorite library was migrated) to move over, didn't, and are now obstinately standing in the way of forward progress.
- kortilla 7y agoYeah, it’s super unfortunate how the existence of py27 security patches magically stops all py3 users from doing any work. It’s sort of how the existence of c prevents anyone from using rust.
- diminoten 7y agoYeah right, because splitting the community hasn't caused any problems at all... Get a grip; you are failing at whatever your job is if you're responsible for a python2 project and haven't moved it to python3 by now.
- alanfranz 7y agoPython3 was a bad idea. Guido himself acknowledged it. There was no point in breaking everything. The split was initiated by core developers, not by the community.
- diminoten 7y agoSorry, not good enough. The decision was made, good or bad, 11 years ago. Everyone had plenty of time to come to grips with that reality, anyone still lingering on Python2 is bad at their job. The bad decision now is to allow the split to continue, and RedHat is allowing that to happen due to greed and ignorance.
- Grue3 7y agoIt's almost as if programming languages live forever as long as there's production code that uses them. See: COBOL.