Let's be honest. The fact that surveys like this are still around 6 long years later has just become boring. I have moved to Python 3 purely because of asyncio

Let's be honest. The fact that surveys like this are still around 6 long years later has just become boring. I have moved to Python 3 purely because of asyncio. There is no other reason that I have found Python 3 to be compelling for. When I write Python 3 now, I feel like my favourite language has gone all "serious" on me, like it wanted to grow up, and has lost a lot of its charisma on the way. I actually liked the print operator for example - it's probably the reason I chose python in the first place when I saw >>> print "hello world" for the first time. That's it? So clear and simple! 3.0 has lost some of that. The unicode thing is also just irritating because 99% of the time ascii works very well and is less complicated, thank you very much. Also, no matter what anybody says, you still bump into libraries that you need that are 2.x only (in my case Bloomberg). It doesn't matter if most libraries are ported if just one library that you need is not ported yet, you're back to 2.x. Imagine you're an average coder who uses say 8 libraries. By the ratio of 15% not yet moved, you're almost certain to have a problem (1 - 0.85 ^ 8 > 70% chance). Anyway I have been able to manage because I have isolated the 2.x dependencies in another system, and I have put in the effort only because I really like asyncio, and it's finally clear to me that Python 2.x has no future. That said, and taking that logic even further, the very fact that this 2v3 issue is still around is irritating, and has been irritating a lot of people for a long time. I am wondering about going the whole way and moving to another language altogether (Golang and/or functionals). One more thing to point out. If you're beginning in Python, the vast majority of code samples on the internet are 2.x. That's fine if you have any clue about Python as the surface differences are not that large, but it is definitely a pain if you're expecting to copy and paste and have things "just work".