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That it has a lot of my old code working perfectly for years, and I don't have spare time to port it to another language and keep catching subtle bugs for month
by nlitened 2y ago
That it has a lot of my old code working perfectly for years, and I don't have spare time to port it to another language and keep catching subtle bugs for months.
- rglullis 2y agoOut of curiosity, how many lines of code are we talking about here?
- imtringued 2y ago"Port it to another language". You're saying this as if the minor asinine breaks in python 2 Vs 3 make it a whole new programming language, when in reality it is mostly bullshit like print going from statement to function.
- CJefferson 2y agoMy problem is some libraries which never transitioned from 2 to 3. I don't want to try to convert them, particularly as they involve Unicode which is one of the hardest bits to get right in my experience.
- skeledrew 2y agoImproved unicode (string vs byte separation) handling was exactly one of the larger reasons for the breaking change to 3.
- CJefferson 2y agoYou are right that unicode is much better in 3, but in my experience this is a pain point mapping programs 2 -> 3, because often programs seem to work fine until there is some exciting unicode, or malformed characters, in the input, then they crash when they used to just rumble on.
- skeledrew 2y agoThat sounds about right. Fail fast and loud so things have to be fixed, rather than continue silently and likely corrupt data.