Python adopts a 12-month release cycle

Re:Python adopts a 12-month release cycle by elisharobinson on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:29PM (#21421446)

taking something awful and making it less awful is different than making something good better.

python is 2 is a good programming language by any standard , i would like to see a fork of python 2 with emphasis on LTS and performance optimization.

The whole reason why python became popular is because it had a very shallow learning curve. introducing new cryptic language features every year Is not going to make it easy for new comers. I can say with some certainty that no one is going to use a pure python implementation in production(atleast not yet).

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Re:Python adopts a 12-month release cycle by inglor on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:52PM (#21421754)

I absolutely agree with this sentiment and seeing Python move further and further from "There should be one obvious way to do it" scares me.

I totally get why you'd want a language with async iterators and typings and why you'd want a language with easy data science interop and easy CPU - I am just not sure they should be the same language and I think it should be possible to learn how to do one (e.g. data science) without the other (high throughput async programming, typings etc).

I really hope the smart people behind the helm have the foresight to discuss the implications of language size. As someone involved in the process in JavaScript both as Node core and as an individual this deeply concerns me there as well.

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Re:Python adopts a 12-month release cycle by hsaliak on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:34PM (#21421528)

pypy is going to continue supporting python 2 indefinitely. They focus on that LTS release and care about performance.

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Re:Python adopts a 12-month release cycle by elisharobinson on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:28PM (#21422192)

its been a long time since i used it . is it stable ? it anyone using it in prod ? does it have a decent packaging solution ?

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Re:Python adopts a 12-month release cycle by eesmith on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:53PM (#21422453)

Yes, it's stable.

Yes, people are using it in production. (Examples at https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/bv50uz/is_anyone_us... ).

Is 'pip' a decent enough packaging solution?

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Re:Python adopts a 12-month release cycle by elisharobinson on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:49PM (#21422983)

cool i will check it out then .

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