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Flash is a terrible example because there is literally no place for flash apps to go except be rewritten from scratch in some entirely different platform. Pyth
by zzzeek 6y ago
Flash is a terrible example because there is literally no place for flash apps to go except be rewritten from scratch in some entirely different platform. Python 2 programs simply get ported to python 3. And we are already ten years into python 3, so yes, python 2 is going away at least as much as say Perl 4 or MySQL 3 or Oracle 7 has gone away. Which is pretty damn away.
Also they aren't withdrawing pip from being available for python 2. You just use the older version of pip. Programs that need pips newer features won't install on python 2 anyway. Because it's really going away very quickly now.
- ianhanschen 6y agoIt’s the closest example I could think of to draw on. This is a good example of what I was talking about. Python 2.x isn’t “going away very quickly now.”
- maxerickson 6y agoIt's a fair bet that AIR will be supported until Ruffle gets fleshed out (Harman is taking it over). (AIR isn't an interesting solution for a big chunk of apps, but there's lots where moving out of the browser is fine)
- IlliOnato 6y agoAFAIK even the most modern Perl 5.32 runs Perl 4 programs just fine, so "porting" programs from 4 to 5 was "trivial" in the strongest sense. Perl 7 finally is going to break this compatibility, at least according to the current plan, but the "porting" still is supposed to be trivial, in most cases just adding a pragma or two. 27 years after Perl 5 was released...