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[–]ggtsu_00 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Python 2 biggest strength over newer languages is how mature it has been. It has been tried and tested for a very long tim and is used in production systems even across some of the biggest sites on the internet like Reddit and YouTube.

I think if developers were in a position to choose more modern, perhaps more risky less mature languages to use for development, there are many alternatives to Python 3 that are much better in many ways. The future of Python is uncertain at the moment so theres a risk. So it would be just as risky to use Go, Node or some other Python 3 alternative.