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Serious question: when will Python be done?

Is there any programming language that's "done"? I feel like any programming language that's "done" is closer to "abandoned" than the developers saying "the language is perfect now, there's no need to add or change anything".

TeX is the closest I know of.

I was about to agree with you before I realized I use XeTeX, not TeX.

Unless things change now that there’s a “steering council” in charge rather than a BDFL, probably never.

Instead, I expect the language to continue along the path of FOMO-driven accumulation of features (and complexity), while still not addressing its major issues (e.g. performance and parallelism).

You are free to fix your use to a specific version whenever you want. So I guess it's done whenever you choose it to be done.

Assuming the libraries you want support the older version you are using

That doesn't really contradict me. You _can_ fix your python version. You can even continue using all the libraries you have installed with your python version. Of course you can't necessarily use newer versions of those libraries or possibly new that haven't been written yet, but of course you can keep using your python and whatever libraries you have installed for it.

But yes you can't expect new code to continue to support your fixed choices forever. Then again that's true of essentially every language out there so I don't really see what's special with python.

What, like perl5 status?

When it becomes Julia.

When JS is done.

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