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> With the benefit of hindsight, though, Python 3 could have been done as a non-breaking upgrade. Not without enormous and unnecessary pain.
by MangoToupe 11mo ago
> With the benefit of hindsight, though, Python 3 could have been done as a non-breaking upgrade.
Not without enormous and unnecessary pain.
- JoshTriplett 11mo agoIt would absolutely have been harder. But the pain of going that path might potentially have been less than the pain of the Python 2 to Python 3 transition. Or, possibly, it wouldn't have been; I'm not claiming the tradeoff is obvious even in hindsight here.
- MangoToupe 11mo agoI think you have causation reversed: it would have been at least two orders of magnitude greater to act like moving to python 3 was harder than staying. But you do you boo :emoji-kissey-face:
- SoftTalker 11mo agoPain on whose part? There was certainly pain porting all the code that had to be ported to Python 3 so that the Python developers could have an easier time.
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- MangoToupe 11mo agoYes, exactly. customers need to stop acting like a bitch if they wanna be taken seriously