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The move to web based apps or connected in general was a genius move by the programming community. Now there will be an endless churn to keep programs up to da
by rightbyte 4y ago
The move to web based apps or connected in general was a genius move by the programming community.
Now there will be an endless churn to keep programs up to date for "security reasons" and that cost money.
We can even pull the plug on programs nowadays to the give the users the very best experience! Otherwise the lusers might have felt satisfied with what they have.
- nicoburns 4y agoYou say that, but the web platform rarely if ever removes features in this way. My web code from 15 years ago works the same as it always did.
- rightbyte 4y agoObviously you chose the wrong framework or even worse - none at all. Ye I am whining but only half joking. Breaking backwards compatibility ruins my mood. And Python are getting way to much slack for what they have been doing to the users. People wanting to stick to 2.7 are ridiculed and soon the software security police will start arresting offenders.
- samus 4y agoIf people that want to stick to 2.7 can find a vendor that supplies them security patches, then there is no problem.
- senko 4y agoI recently upgraded a Python 2 + Django 1.x project with no tests to Python 3 and latest Django. Using 2to3, the most trouble I had were db migrations, which I just squashed. The rest were ferreting out str() problems that 2to3 didn't find (eg. redis package happily taking strings but returning bytes by default), Django regexp url changes, and trivial stuff like that. It took a couple of days work. I also wanted to upgrade the frontend part (webpack build of Vue). I stopped after a few hours od going nowhere and am still apprehensive of approaching that particular thing.
- pjmlp 4y agoActually this is a return to the past, we used to call them timesharing systems.