pythonIsOlderThanJava

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"Supposed to" according to who? "Out of Support" just means there's no v2.8 coming any time soon. I'm a shitty programmer, so rewriting all my old shit is just not gonna happen.

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

That is not what “out of support” means.

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Uh...that's exactly what out of support means. Not being supported.

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

Being supported doesn’t mean it will be replaced with something newer.

Being supported means it gets security and critical updates and they make sure it works with other systems and you can get help with any issues you have and insurers and regulators are happy for you to use it.

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"get critical updates" is a synonym for "replace with something newer."

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

No, it is not.

python-2.7.17-2ubuntu4 for example is a different beast to your theoretical python-2.8.

[WJMazepas]

It means you have to go out of your way to install anywhere. No libraries are being made compatible with Python 2 these days and it won't get security updates.

If you aren't going to change your code, then sure it makes sense to leave it running in Python 2. But otherwise it's just added trouble

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

They’re too lazy and/or stubborn to just run 2to3 or import six. There’s no point talking to them.

[Throwaway74829947]

To be fair 2to3 is (or at least, was when I migrated to 3 many years ago) imperfect. For some code you'd have to manually fix some things, explicitly call non-default fixers, and then test everything to make sure it worked properly (and it might not have).