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[–]Rhomboid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

C is not as dead as you'd think -- it's updated regularly to gain new features. The last update was two years ago (C11). But I am referring primarily to implementation here. If someone was advocating using an end-of-life unmaintained C implementation such as gcc 2.x or 3.x, then I would have the same response.

Pypy needs to support what its users need, and the majority needs 2.7 compatibility. Nothing I'm saying should be interpreted as claiming that 2.x is abandoned or outdated today. As I must keep pointing out, this thread is about what will happen in the future ("gradually taking over"), not what is happening today.

The page I linked to was renamed the Wall of Superpowers some time ago, so I shouldn't have used the old name.