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Lots of libraries were missing or broken for Python 3 for many years. If anything, it was far less usable than Wayland.

• apelapan 3y ago
  My experience was that Python3 became a meaningful upgrade over Python2 around the 3.5 release. That was less than seven years of transition! I've been happy with Wayland for most of my Linux desktopping since 2018, so that was a ten year transition from first release to full adoption on my part.
  • dontlaugh 3y ago
    It depends on your constraints. I remember still not being able to transition some projects well after 3.7 was released.
    • apelapan 3y ago
      Of course, there is a long tail of things that can't/won't migrate. I still see Python2.7 production code on a semi-regular basis (not network exposed, but very much at the core of critical business processes of major enterprises). And I'm sure we'll have X11 desktops around for various purposes ten years from now.