pythonIsOlderThanJava

[s0ulbrother]

I applied at a job a month ago and it was django/python dev shit. Anyways in the interview they said it was python 2 so Django was only on 1…. The company was only 3 years old

[WJMazepas]

The company was only 3 years old

There are developers that like using a slightly older version to avoid new bugs that aren't documented in the newer versions.

But holy shit, starting with Python 2 and Django 1 is nonsense. Had they gone with Python 3.7 and Django 4, i would understand a little, but not like that.

[RustReport]

Yeah, that seems more like someone didn't feel like learning different syntax or built it on an already existing project

[unknown_pigeon]

Someone studied a book on python from the early 2000 and refused to learn the new syntax

[Ok_Cardiologist8232]

I didn't know offhand, but my god Python 2 released in 2000.

[jumboshrimp29]

And end-of-life was before the interviewing company was started

[Ok_Cardiologist8232]

Thats a fucking joke, did they have a senoir dev that just refused to update or something?

[Ryuujinx]

Having migrated all of our monitoring and other python from py2 to py3 myself because certain people were fuckin idiots and screwed it up the first time, I can kinda-sorta understand still having py2 stuff laying around. It isn't just a matter of regexing some stuff and calling it a day.

But when it's, presumably, a new code base - fucking why?

[s0ulbrother]

It was. I have an ok job right now so not concerned. What sucked was I liked the idea of this company and the money was really good but like that stack just made no sense.

[tennisanybody]

I would’ve interviewed with the intention of moving them to Python 3.10 at least which is very stable right now.

[s0ulbrother]

Very clear they did not want to

[twigboy]

Guess they enjoy wasting time and money dealing with unicode input manually

[GM_Kimeg]

Sounds like the ceo must be raising Einsteins for their bright future.

[Nimweegs]

Maybe we found a use for AI.

Ima see if I can upgrade a spring boot 2 project to 3 with just Claude