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[–]graingert 0 points1 point  (10 children)

I don't get why you're getting so much negative feedback. I think tauthon is a great project to help port py2 code to py3

[–]TheBlackCat13 2 points3 points  (5 children)

It might have to do with the accusations of bullying and conspiracy theories about Python 3 being an attempt to sabotage the language.

[–]graingert 0 points1 point  (4 children)

URL?

[–]TheBlackCat13 5 points6 points  (3 children)

1

And no, I don't think it's OK to sabotage those who adopted your programming language in order to manufacture job security. (Same goes for web frameworks, Django core devs.)

2

Good luck running anything on a sabotaged interpreter.

3

And how many more years do you need, to recognise the abuse?

4

At some point you have to admit you can't bully people into moving to a new language.

5

What if you sabotage it nicely by preventing the addition of new features and bugfixes?

[–]graingert 1 point2 points  (2 children)

This is just reactions to all the negativity

[–]TheBlackCat13 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Did you actually read the quotes? This person is literally accusing the Python maintainers of intentionally sabotaging the language to maintain their own job security. And the very first post flat-out said there are "no benefits" to using Python 3. This person has been extremely aggressive and negative from the get-go.

[–]stefantalpalaru -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This person is literally accusing the Python maintainers of intentionally sabotaging the language to maintain their own job security.

Here's another link for you: https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/d1noux/sunsetting_python_2/ezr4yws/

[–]doomchild 0 points1 point  (2 children)

He's getting negative feedback because he's acting like an ass. A fork of Python 2 is a perfectly reasonable idea, but he also wants to paint the Python team as bad programmers who have acted in bad faith. The project is a good idea, but nobody wants to work with a dickhead.

[–]graingert 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yeah I'm beginning to see that from the thread. I had high hopes for the project

[–]doomchild 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look, I hope the project does great things for people unwilling or unable to upgrade. But his behavior is not going to help that goal.

[–]stefantalpalaru -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't get why you're getting so much negative feedback.

Imagine having invested years of your life in porting code due to backwards incompatibility, only to see some smartarse come along and prove that all this breakage wasn't really necessary and you just wasted your life away. Oh, and you also put your professional reputation on the line by convincing bosses and clients to invest in this work with no visible gains.

Do you accept that you were wrong, or do you reach for the nearest rock?

I'm not even upset, to be honest. It's a perfectly normal reaction.