It's not nice but it is true.

"Dur dur this <insert anything here> is just like 2 -> 3."

HN had always been susceptible to drive-by ignorant comments, but it's reaching new levels.

There's literally nothing of substance to the suggestion. (And if you think there is, present an actual informed argument.)

It wasn't a suggestion, they were asking a question.

Oh please. Even if we ignore that any question can have implications, they directly said "someone has to say it".

They were explicitly suggesting something by asking that question.

They were suggesting that this is a question that is going to be on people's minds, which is very different from suggesting that the answer is yes.

All I can say is that the phrasing looks quite biased to me and it would have been easy to not phrase it that way.

Subtext is hard to prove, but that doesn't make it not real.

It seems to have clearly been a case of "I remember 2 to 3, that was really bad. I imagine everyone else is wondering this - is this going to be another 2 to 3?"

I sympathise with you, I'm a little tired of these same recycled comments every time the Python comes up.

GP would probably be better if they didn't default to snark / derision by calling it cat hearding.

But the python 2->3 migration has been exactly that

No cats were harmed in the migration from Python 2 to 3.

Programmers and project managers on the other hand...

I would hope they're not hurting the cats that they're herding. That's pretty terrible shepherding