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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by JoshTriplett on Saturday July 08, 2023 @04:12PM (#36648249)
There was no Perl 5 to Perl 6 migration. Perl 6 was announced, a bunch of design work happened on it, and then it became a different language run by different people rather than a version of Perl. People are still writing Perl code extensively, and Perl 5 is still maintained.
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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by 0cf8612b2e1e on Saturday July 08, 2023 @05:33PM (#36648995)
I would expect Python to follow a similar language split. People were disappointed at how few breaking changes occurred in 2->3. If there was going to be a 3->4 migration, will be a large number of proposals to correct other deficiencies in the language.
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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by paulddraper on Saturday July 08, 2023 @09:48PM (#36650698)
"How bad was the migration?"

"It didn't happen"

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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by bazoom42 on Sunday July 09, 2023 @03:35AM (#36652452)
It didn’t happen, but it still killed the language.
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