I basically stopped writing Python because of the 2 -> 3 transition: the cost of waiting for dependencies to be ready for Python 3 was high enough that it made

I basically stopped writing Python because of the 2 -> 3 transition: the cost of waiting for dependencies to be ready for Python 3 was high enough that it made sense just to switch languages for everything. Python was saved, basically, by it becoming _the_ language for data science in the same time frame. But, this could have very well turned into a Perl 6-style fiasco.