The Python community may take this as a wake-up call to realize Python 3 was Python's Vista/ME/Windows 8, rolled up into one. My proposal: Call it a developmen

The Python community may take this as a wake-up call to realize Python 3 was Python's Vista/ME/Windows 8, rolled up into one. My proposal: Call it a development version, and ask the community to upgrade when Python 4 fixes GIL, adds support for GPGPU, multicore, adds semantics useful for going fast, true lambdas, tail recursion, and adds all sorts of similar pretty things. Forcing an upgrade down a community's throat worked for Microsoft when they had a monopoly and could stop releasing security patches for older versions. And even then not well, and giving huge numbers of botnots. Anything short of that is likely to fail and just hurt the size of the Python community. If I'm switching, there's also Ruby and a few other places to go that aren't Python 3. I don't like, want, or care about Python 3. It's a regression for me. It's not a popular view, so I'm not vocal about it, but I don't think I'm in the minority here.