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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by jessaustin on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:54PM (#17518080)
Sure, there are growing pains with any breaking change. Do you think the ruby 1.8 -> 1.9 transition went more smoothly than the python 2.7 -> 3.x... transition?
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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by coldtea on Thursday July 12, 2018 @05:43PM (#17518878)
Sure it did. Barely took a few years, and it also had a large performance boost (whereas 3 initially came with regressions until 3.4 or so).

Plus, basic things like Rails were working from the start.

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by jrochkind1 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @04:57PM (#17518536)
My impression is that it did, yes.
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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by jrochkind1 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:24PM (#17520279)
But on the other hand, Python's overall popularity has grown (mostly on the back of 'data science' I think), while rubies has shrunk, and python is definitely more popular than ruby at the moment... so python's lesser success at that transition didn't actually matter much in the end?
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