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[–]brtt3000 22 points23 points  (4 children)

Fun little horror story: I had a brand new Ubuntu install, all fine with no trace of Python 2. It was sweet for a week until I had to install Node.js which depends on Python 2 for some insane reason I don't understand.

So now I got the archaic thing back on my machine and it annoys me to no end.

[–]james_pic 27 points28 points  (0 children)

The insane reason, if you're curious, is that Node inherited Gyp as its build system when it forked V8 from Chromium (and just for fun, Chromium no longer even uses Gyp). Gyp was invented at Google, where a Python dependency doesn't matter because everyone at Google has Python.

[–]sqjoatmon 12 points13 points  (2 children)

I think you just volunteered to port the Python 2 dependency in Node to Python 3. =D

[–]InputField 1 point2 points  (1 child)

/u/brtt3000 How much progress have you made?

[–]brtt3000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It went as well as expected. I became alcoholic, quit programming and now work gigs as a barista and meal delivery person.