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Re:Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths by sreque on Friday November 13, 2015 @04:23PM (#10562491)
My belief is that the effort os a linear function of your code base size. This means the larger the code base, the more effort required to port.

Also, porting is made more difficult by the fact that Python is a dynamic language, so a lot of errors that could be caught at compile time will only be catchable through a thorough testing suite. I have seen little evidence to suggest that porting from Python 2 to 3 is actually straightfoward in the sense of not requiring significant effort proportional to the size of the code base.

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Re:Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths by agentultra on Friday November 13, 2015 @10:29PM (#10564305)
Believe what you will but the numbers suggest that it's not a technical problem to port a Python code base. It does take effort and work but it's "straight forward" in the sense that what is required is well known.
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