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I still fail to understand this. What's its purpose? To make all web pages look the same?

Of course the push to a new version is strong and a newer version of a product represents its future. I'm not debating this or stating that it is stupid to use the newer version, but when I see someone writing "about time!", I read it like "wow, so I can finally use Python 3 and all its game changing brand new features!", but I don't see anything new than, when programming in Python 2x, makes me think "oh, if only I had used Python 3 here!". For example, when I upgraded to .net 3.5 and I got Linq, I really felt the pain of not having it available when maintaing older code and I finally decided to migrate it all to 3.5 due to the real new features.

honest question: my job is programming in python. I never had python 3 installed on a machine, being it personal, a server or a computer at work. I never felt the need to. any time I wonder why I'm not using it, I go back to the "what's new" page and I remember why. I mean, the biggest change is print not being a statement anymore? Improved UTF8 is neat, and being Italian I work with not ASCII chars all the day, but even in large projects this comes down to a couple of encodings. I mean, multi-line lambdas, optional static decorators, those would justify a jump in version and backwork incompatibility, but map returning an iterator and not a list? Meh, this is good for python 2.actual_version + 1.

now, this confirms my opinion that the game has been really fun to program, much more than to play. Simulating inch by inch damage is a fun thing to think, model and develop, but in the end the player gets a bunch of chars and some description that could have been well picked up randomly with no impact on the gameplay

really? for the price i assume it's a computer for working. I can hardware imagine a single situation when i'm programming code / writing with a word processor / making music / creting graphics and I'd feel the need to dirty the vertical screen that's in front of me with a movement of the arm that gets me away from the keyboard and the mouse.

Oh, let alone that I can hardly use a computer running Linux to work professionally in the graphics / music / media fields, but to each his own: maybe you like the idea of a 1300$ machine to surf the web and play angry bird, and it's not overpriced since it's not from Apple.

Conveniently ignoring that it's sold at the same price as the MacBook Pro retina 13'' is convenient.

got excited by it as everyone else. turns out working within a forced async environment is a major pain in the butt.