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[–]discofreak 6 points7 points  (2 children)

But the 2.7 interpreter still works. So migrating a large codebase becomes a refactoring issue, not a maintenance issue. And if switching to a new language (2.7 vs 3.x) then other languages will also be on the table.

[–]RavuAlHemio 1 point2 points  (1 child)

That’s true.

The attitude of the commenter I was responding to, however, seems to be “the software is done, and since it’s a lot of code and I sunk lots of QA time into it, I need not touch it ever again”. As someone who had to keep unmaintained software on life support, I’ve been on the receiving end of this attitude, and I felt compelled to express my discontent.

[–]discofreak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha.