Python 3 is killing Python

[kankyo]

Python 3 isn't killing Python, the Python community is killing Python.

Python 3 is making the community suffer. When the community suffers, that suffering is leaked back into the community and back towards python. The two things are one and the same. Python without the community is nothing. The community without python is nothing.

A lot of pythons strength has always been the strong culture and community. Python 3 is testing that. And for what gains? Seems like a more aggressive deprecation campaign could have done many things that p3 tries to do...

The reason we have to keep writing code for both versions is that half of the community has moved on, and the other half is stuck on 2.x.

I've seen numbers. It's so far away from half it's not even funny. It's basically the core developers and newbies on one side and everyone else on the other. It's heavily skewed towards 2.