This changes everything!
Just kidding. Python 3 adoption will continue to be slow, and judging from PyPI stats, nothing to write home about even atm.
Just kidding. Python 3 adoption will continue to be slow, and judging from PyPI stats, nothing to write home about even atm.
I agree with the parent post: now is the time. Open source projects should to stop supporting py2 in their new major release and cleanup their codebase from the hacks made to support both languages.
The danger with this for Python is that it can give the impetus (is that the word?) and motivation for people with py2 legacy projects (which is the majority of people) to say "fuck this" and go try another language that doesn't pull this shit on them. Go, JS with Node, Ruby, whatever...
If they're not gonna get compatibility anyway, they might jump ship altogether. At least for green-field projects...