Wow I just read up on that. Python 3 is from the late '00s but it still uses fixed 16-bit characters? That's just silly. Pay double the price for most strings,

Wow I just read up on that. Python 3 is from the late '00s but it still uses fixed 16-bit characters? That's just silly. Pay double the price for most strings, and still get Unicode support wrong. And then the newer versions "fix" this by allowing 32-bit characters? And even newer versions can do a different encoding per string? I know people like O(1) indexing into strings, but I'm unconvinced it's so useful to totally fuck up your string implementation. Java, Windows and .Net have the excuse of being thought up before Unicode was over 16-bits so it's slightly excusable (but still a bad tradeoff for many, many, applications, probably the majority of server apps).