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Re:Pyston 0.3: Self-hosting Sufficiency by svisser on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @07:11PM (#9104462)
Python 3 has no benefits if your Python 2 code works and many dependencies are not Python 3 compatible yet. Why would a company even port to Python 3?
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Re:Pyston 0.3: Self-hosting Sufficiency by jsmeaton on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @07:41PM (#9104585)
There aren't that many dependencies without py3 support anymore. Of course, if your project uses any then being stuck on py2 is a given.

I still don't think projects should port to python 3 unless they need to be moved forward or continually developed. Greenfield projects should most definitely start on py3 though.

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Re:Pyston 0.3: Self-hosting Sufficiency by duaneb on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @07:42PM (#9104591)
...because Python 2 has a shorter lifetime and shitty unicode/string support (compared to 3).
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