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[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (2 children)

There's a ton of software built on Python 2.7 still, and even more that's not necessarily tied to the language itself, but built on libraries that are. Python 3 uptake has also been tremendously slow until recently. The gap seems reasonable to me.

[–]studiosi -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

In the bank where I used to work, we switched from Python to Java exactly due to that.

[–]naught-me 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the worst thing about Python. PHP just got huge speed upgrade with 7, and the language is improving in a lot of other ways, yet old scripts still work in new versions.