Likewise. I cut my teeth on Python 20 years ago and I loved it back then - even getting my hands dirty in the guts of the interpreter. But now in hindsight, I

Likewise. I cut my teeth on Python 20 years ago and I loved it back then - even getting my hands dirty in the guts of the interpreter. But now in hindsight, I'm shocked that Python 3.0 wasn't seized as an opportunity to lose more of its baggage - the under-optimized interpreter, the poor parallelization story, the excessive surface area of the interpreter exposed to Python itself, making it impractical to re-implement in other interpreters, better typing, etc. They broke backwards compatibility and all we got for it was Unicode?