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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by znpy on Sunday October 25, 2020 @08:29PM (#24891525)
worth noting that in the python 2 to 3 story, a migration path was mostly provided along with tools that tried to automatically refactor your code, the latest 2.x release was supported for nearly a decade, and there have been directions on how to temporarily write code to work on both python2 and python3.
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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by sergeykish on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:15AM (#24893556)
Python 3 is only unusual in its failure. Perl6 Apocalypses [1] is wonderful. Python 3000 is pointless [2].

I've been Python developer at that time, the writing was on the wall. They have not provided migration path. PEP 414 "Complaint: This PEP may harm adoption of Python 3.2" [3], this is insane. Community voted with feet — they've stayed with Python 2 until clean migration path arrived. I've switched to Ruby and been happy since.

Ruby 1.8.7 was supported for five years.

You had to write Python 2 code and run 2to3, you had to live in the past or abandon it.

[1] https://raku.org/archive/doc/apocalypse.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python#Features

[3] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0414/

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