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> Take upgrading your Python 2 code to Python 3 as an example. You need to put a lot of efforts while gaining nothing. Just the python's 3 string/binary distin
by vetinari 2y ago
> Take upgrading your Python 2 code to Python 3 as an example. You need to put a lot of efforts while gaining nothing.
Just the python's 3 string/binary distinction and explicit conversion squashed an entire category of bugs. Yes, it required to make explicit what was implicit before, but still, that's huge achievement in my book; saying that it is nothing is a very, very shortsighted.
- account42 2y ago> Just the python's 3 string/binary distinction and explicit conversion squashed an entire category of bugs. And created an entire category of new ones.