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> an older LTS version of Python There was an older LTS version of Python called Python 2.7. Last I checked people hated the transition and were still bitching
by oefrha 5y ago
> an older LTS version of Python
There was an older LTS version of Python called Python 2.7. Last I checked people hated the transition and were still bitching about it in 2021.
- rich_sasha 5y agoI’m one of them (though once I had to pay the tax, I tried to forget about it). My chief complaint was that there was a decent syntactic change for 0 benefit for me, and many Python users. F-strings, swapping str<->unicode, print function. All white superficial stuff, at least as far as my domain is concerned (data science). It felt like “hey other languages are getting breaking changes, we should too”. This is completely different. Single core speeds have not increased for years (decades?), any language with performance vaguely on the list must have an answer to multicore computation. I’d put up with a fair amount of pain for this. Perhaps, dunno, web devs would complain that this change doesn’t help them, and is only a pain. That’s what I disliked in 2->3. I was told that I’m a dinosaur and should put up and shut up. Which eventually I did. But this is my answer to the naysayers this time. Of course this might still fail in technical grounds but I’m hopeful, sounds solid.
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