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0 pointskekeblom5y ago0 comments

Likely a key factor is leaving support for the old version. If they had immediately deprecated python 2, users would have quickly updated their packages over to a supported version.

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user59944615y ago· 1 in thread

>>> If they had immediately deprecated python 2, users would have quickly updated their packages over to a supported version.

Painfully wrong. They tried to deprecate at least twice, it was so bad a decision that they had to backtrack.

In fact Python 3 is the hard proof that you cannot hope users to upgrade, by abandoning ship and giving no way to upgrade.

kekeblomOP5y ago

Well there is a way to upgrade. They even provided an automated tool that would convert code and warn you about the handful of changes.

lillecarl5y ago

Somehow it feels like PHP being a synonym to WordPress and Node going though babel makes these languages different too from perl and python too.

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