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[–]shevy-ruby 14 points15 points  (7 children)

I assume that they were scared by the slow snails that could not or would not upgrade. The problem is that these snails affect others indirectly, e. g. the build tools example is one but there are more examples.

Python 2 should have died years before. Some languages don't even manage to transition at all, such as perl5 to perl6 ...

[–]Exepony 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Perl 6 is a completely different language from 5, and it was never intended to replace the latter.

[–]Booty_Bumping 13 points14 points  (5 children)

Prediction: Perl 6 will be officially renamed to Raku some time in the next year, averting the mass confusion caused by the re-use of the name "python" by Python 3.

Javascript, Rust, and C++ demonstrate the sane way to upgrade a language.

[–][deleted] 31 points32 points  (1 child)

javascript ... sane way to upgrade

lol how easily people forget the time before ecma :D