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wait - what? Is Django a big enough project for you? Did you know that Django was not only successfully migrated from Python 2 to Python 3, it was ported in s

wait - what? Is Django a big enough project for you? Did you know that Django was not only successfully migrated from Python 2 to Python 3, it was ported in such a way that for many years it used the same codebase in both languages ... Perhaps that's the biggest advantage of porting from 2 to 3. A lot of the code could run in both languages.

seriesf 7y ago
The corollary of my complaint is there will always be someone who pops up on HN with no idea how many lines of code are in a "large project" like Dropbox or YouTube.
- glofish 7y ago
  This is kind of a cop-out, how would anyone know? Is Dropbox open source? Is Dropbox even a typical Python application representative of the challenges of porting from 2 to 3? My hunch is that the challenges of porting Dropbox to any other language have to do less with Python more with the need to deal with a filesystem at a lower and more granular level than what typical programming languages offer. Thus everything needs to be rewritten in bazillions of ways to handle the bazillion corner cases.