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Are complaints about things breaking between 2.x versions somehow invalid? It’s the same steering group that has made a series of breaking changes. Even people on branches of this thread claim there are breaking changes in 3.7 > 3.8. I’m not sure I would willingly use python for any new project unless necessary, putting it into the same bin as national instruments.

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It's a valid complaint on it's own, sure. But it kind of looks like you're complaining that they're going from an ~18 month cycle to a scheduled 12 month cycle. It's not really valid as a complain for this particular change. You're talking about a decade. 18 months vs 12 months seems inconsequential for you.

I'm complaining about the ethos of the python maintainers. I don't see how putting out updates more rapidly will do anything to my complaints other than make future me dislike using python even more. At first I thought they missed a beat but now I think they're playing free jazz.

The 3.x releases _are nothing like_ the 3.0 release. You have a valid complaint about the 3.0 release, which was 11 years ago. If you've not tried updating from 3.x to 3.y — which is a very different process — then you have no stake in this change.

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