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Static platforms are great for developers. The best years of WebObjects' life were after Apple had mothballed it. Returning to a project years later - all the o
by cturner 13y ago
Static platforms are great for developers. The best years of WebObjects' life were after Apple had mothballed it. Returning to a project years later - all the old code, scripts, and patterns worked just the same. Nothing else in the java world was like that. Similar story with BSD. The python 2/3 migration has been well managed. There is no rush. Celebrate it.
- seanwoods 13y agoI think this is exactly right. Often people rush to conclusions in favor of the new and shiny, but Python is a great language that works pretty darn well at the moment, even in v2.7, giving the community the freedom to fully vet their ideas and make a valuable product. I remember reading commentary on HN when a new version of PuTTY was released, and there was general sentiment that PuTTY is - for all intents and purposes - a "finished" product in that it does what you need it to do. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2758696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2758696 Python v2.7 is similar in that it's a tool that does many amazing things and is very stable. Could it be improved? Sure! But for the most part it's a great piece of software. The care and planning that went into creating the tool is also going into the upgrade process, and I think that's a good thing.
- pnathan 13y agoThis is really a great point. Python 2 is stable and probably never going to die off. This implies that it can be stably and productively used without worrying about the language developers breaking it down the road. This is great. :-)