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Python developers won’t let go of Python 2 (www.infoworld.com)
submitted 11 months ago by ruffsl@programming.dev to c/python@programming.dev
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[–] Narann@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not sure why it is a big deal for most things.

Close source libraries written by third party contractors in non web/internet/research related domains.

What it means is that you will always have a small portion of Python devs that will stay on Python 2.

Even if you fork it and rename it to Snake 2, you will always have devs working on a language named Python 2.

[–] RedditReject@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I get that. My job is mostly writing Python scripts to keep an old Fortran based framework going, so I cringe when people get married into a language like this. I feel that all code should be adaptable and be able to absorb upgrades and changes. But I certainly understand. From my perspective if they were to rework my old Fortran code, it would take them at least a year or more to do it well. Most companies don't want to spend that sort of effort.