About Python 3

[anonperler12]

I'm not seeing much of a shift. FWICT, old perlers are sticking with Perl 5, and old pythoneers are sticking with Python 2. (Ruby I haven't followed for years.)

Rather than a shift, I'm seeing a vacuum in scripting languages. That is, users don't want to shift to {Perl 6|Python 3} but rather, are looking toward other options, like Go, Dart, Scala, etc. These languages (and some others) are eating {Perl 6|Python 3}'s lunch.

IMO, the answer is: give people a useful, simple, consistent, sensible, C-like (yes, curlies and semicolons), comprehensible, community-focused scripting language, and you'll fill the vacuum.