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Comment by tony-allan | Hacker News Reader

Pity it's not Python3.

Yeah weird. I would expect Python2 to be dying off more by now. Wonder if we're headed to an environment where there's essentially 2 separate languages as Python 3 continues to change and grow?

https://pythonclock.org/

I think we're roughly already there. I think the pivotal moment where Python 2 could've died out rapidly passed and they kept officially supporting it for too long.

As far as I know, permanent EOL for Python 2 is still Jan 1, 2020 (https://pythonclock.org/). Python 3 was first released December of 2008. That's an awfully long tail.

Fascinating. I always thought Python 2.7 support would end July 3, 2020 (exactly 5+5 years from when 2.7 was released), but for some reason they recently decided to go with Jan 1st.

> Specifically, 2.7 will receive bugfix support until January 1, 2020. All 2.7 development work will cease in 2020.

> I've updated the PEP to say 2.7 is completely dead on Jan 1 2020. The final release may not literally be on January 1st, but we certainly don't want to support 2.7 through all of 2020.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/#maintenance-releas... https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-March/1523...

Well this project has pretty much died off. No update in over a year, and nothing significant in 3-4.

It's a pretty old side-project, based on an interpreter that itself took quite a while to support Python 3 well due to lack of funding, so it's not that weird it hasn't been updated.

I still get surprises like starting to learn Google Cloud Functions and realizing that up until July of this year they only supported Python 2.

I have no idea why would a project of this caliber would start by using Python 2 instead of Python 3.

Edit: When I started reading about GCF, all docs said I could only use Python 2. Later I found that they seem to be on the way to change this. But still, I was very surprised that Python 2 was even an option to begin with.

Assuming the work here was primarily the asm.js based emitter, maybe it can be ported to PyPy3 without needing to go from scratch.

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