Re:Python 2.8?
by dagw on Sunday January 22, 2017 @09:06AM
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Another mistake was that when originally released Python 3 did not offer enough shiny new things to convince people that going through the pain of upgrading was worthwhile.
Not only that, they effectively took away a lot of vital shiny old things like numpy and django. It was something like 3 years between python 3.0 and the first stable releases of numpy and django with python support. That was 3 years where python 3 was effectively useless to a large number of python developers, and you can lose a lot of momentum in 3 years. Had the core python team gotten together with the teams for numpy, scipy, django and a couple of other big name libraries and coordinated the release of python 3 with versions of all those libraries that would work with python 3, then I imagine things might have gone a lot smoother.
Not only that, they effectively took away a lot of vital shiny old things like numpy and django. It was something like 3 years between python 3.0 and the first stable releases of numpy and django with python support. That was 3 years where python 3 was effectively useless to a large number of python developers, and you can lose a lot of momentum in 3 years. Had the core python team gotten together with the teams for numpy, scipy, django and a couple of other big name libraries and coordinated the release of python 3 with versions of all those libraries that would work with python 3, then I imagine things might have gone a lot smoother.