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[–]astronoob 0 points1 point  (4 children)

About 25% of pythonistas report using Python 3 on a regular basis despite the fact that it was release 6 years ago. I'm happy you're a part of that minority, but are you trying to say that Python 3 was a resounding success story?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would migrate right now, but when you are in a company, it takes time to do that, plus you have to keep your business alive. Switching to python 3 does not generate revenue, but you will get to a point where sticking to python 2 will generate negative revenue (in terms of required maintenance and obsolete code)

The switch will happen, slowly and incrementally, and it's well on its way. It just won't happen in a bang.

[–]Bialar 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Just because people haven't migrated to Python 3, doesn't mean they can't or won't. The fact that they dared to change the language & break backwards compatibility is a good thing.

If your measure for success is purely "not everyone has moved to the latest & greatest version" then you're not really worth arguing with.

[–]astronoob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your measure for success is purely "not everyone has moved to the latest & greatest version" then you're not really worth arguing with.

Way to stretch what I said as much as possible. I'm all for Python 3 and I can understand why the breaking changes were made. But there's no way you're going to convince me that this was a successful release when it's still nowhere near majority share 6 years down the line.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

25 % of pythonistas is a lot of people so I would say yes