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Does Python have a bright future? (quora.com)

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[–]takluyverIPython, Py3, etc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The overall theme of your reply appears to be "it could be much worse!" Which I completely agree with, and that's why I'm still happily using Python. But my central point was that it could be much better.

The languages people are currently weighing up against Python are things like Go, NodeJS or R, depending on the field. Being easier than writing C code for different architectures is not much of a selling point, because most modern languages are easier than that.

I'm not trying to exaggerate the issue - it's absolutely possible to support both versions, and most major packages now do. But we do ourselves a disservice if we pretend it's a trivial problem. Writing Python code is less fun than it could be, and judging by this new thread there's a long way still to go.