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Very nice writing except the python part. Just 2to3 really have been a maintenance pain for me. The hardest part with script languages to actually know if somet

• bArray 5y ago
  > Very nice writing except the python part. Just 2to3 really have been a maintenance pain for me. I agree. I could have been talked into getting onboard with Python for long-term low-maintenance projects if only they didn't burn everybody with the backwards compatibility. I understand of course why the changes were made, but it doesn't make it any easier. It's not impossible that 3 -> 4 will do the same. I was wondering the other day whether something that is already dead might make a better scripting language. For example, you haven't got to worry about any random changes to the COBOL language! I suspect something like JS is pretty much at maturity now with WebASM poised to replace it.
  • iamevn 5y ago
    I doubt 3->4 will be too much of a shock, iirc the only planned breakage will be switching annotations to have delayed evaluation so annotations in things like classes can reference the thing that's not yet defined
• joshuaissac 5y ago
  I think it is not necessarily about being compiled versus interpreted. It is more about static typing, and the type-related issues being revealed and fixed right at the beginning instead of only when the user invokes the problematic branch of code at runtime.
  • jhgb 5y ago
    On the other hand, one of most long-lived and apparently low maintenance pieces of software I've ever used so far has been GNU Maxima, which is not written in a statically typed language.