Well, get over it and understand it... Speaking personally, I sought to move away to a utf8-friendly language from php a few years back, and seriously consider

Well, get over it and understand it... Speaking personally, I sought to move away to a utf8-friendly language from php a few years back, and seriously considered Python back then. It came highly recommended on Stack Overflow. Upon investigating the matter further, however, it became clear that the community suffered greatly from the divide introduced by Python 3. As if the core devs went in one direction while the community at large went in another. It wasn't exactly a welcoming place for a newcomer. As if you needed to pick sides on day one. I ended up selecting another language and have never looked back. If anything, I'm bemused that the debate still rages on years later. And I can readily picture seasoned Python users being put off by the same, and looking elsewhere for a saner ecosystem. Case in point: As some have already hinted in the thread, the point is becoming moot nowadays, not so much because the community is slowly making the switch to Python 3, but because community members are moving en masse to Node, Go, Scala, Clojure, etc.