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0 pointsrobohamburger9y ago0 comments

Both my workplace and the one big open source project I use homeassistant all use python 3. Do you have any data to backup python 3 adoption being a failure? I know it was certainly painful for many years.

As a python 3 user everything seems fine on my end. Though 3 has its own new warts. They are smaller and more forgivable warts for now but its probably not a good sign.

I do agree the direction python is heading is not very interesting anymore but that doesn't mean its dead or useless now.

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dx0349y ago· 2 in thread

We try to use Python 3 at work but have to run Python 2 as well because there are still packages that weren't upgraded and it's too much working re-writing them all for no direct benefit.

We also have third party vendors that only support Python 3 in experimental versions, and there not even recent versions (Bloomberg is a great example).

I really like Python3 features, but the pain of using them drives me towards using other languages. I hope Julia will be stable and mature enough soon so that I can dump Python all together. I really like Julia, but currently the changes in the languages are too fast and there are constantly incompatibilities with packages that don't update fast enough. But I'm reasonably certain that this will be fixed once they reach 1.0.

I'm sure Python is far from dead, but can imagine that Julia has the potential to kill it in many domains.

whyrt129y ago

Do you do data science?

dx0349y ago

Yes, mostly for finance.

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