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Python 2.7 was EOL'd at the start of 2020, and serious effort to move from 2 to 3 didn't start until around 2018, by which time Go was a very major player.
by jcranmer 11mo ago
Python 2.7 was EOL'd at the start of 2020, and serious effort to move from 2 to 3 didn't start until around 2018, by which time Go was a very major player.
- CamouflagedKiwi 11mo agoMajor-ish. It was getting experimental module support around 2018; arguably go get was already better than Python's mess, but it wasn't great. It wasn't that widespread in industry yet - we could very rarely hire anyone with a Go background at that point.
- loeg 11mo agoPretty major. I started using Go in like 2009 or 2010 and industry adoption was already pretty wide in the mid 2010s (largely replacing Java moreso than Python, IMO).
- notepad0x90 11mo agoI meant when 3.0 was released. By the time 2.7 was EOL'd 3.0 had gained enough momentum to be a viable alternative. It was easier to just migrate to 3.0. In 2018, I don't know if Go was a major player, both it and rust were still new-ish languages. There was still a concern of being able to hire devs if you used them, where as not so much in the past 4-5 years.
- loeg 11mo ago> By the time 2.7 was EOL'd 3.0 had gained enough momentum to be a viable alternative. It was easier to just migrate to 3.0. ~3.8 at the time, not 3.0. 3.0 was a mess.