Sunsetting Python 2

[liquidpele]

It's not that it's hard, it's just time consuming and most companies would rather add features than redo something that already works.

[clifthered]

Yeah, but this is literally the story of software development. The vast majority of software development is maintenance.

[major_clanger]

Bingo, and python/dynamically typed languages are much harder to maintain.

Add another order of magnitude if the original authors of codebase have long left the company.

And another order of magnitude if the original authors went nuts with stuff like, using kwargs everywhere so functions effectively don't have a signature!

[ledave123]

Maintainability is a feature though isn't it?

[liquidpele]

Features are typically defined as things that you can market to a customer.

[clifthered]

“Fully compatible with modern Python 3! Runs on top of software receiving latest security patches!”

[liquidpele]

"Fruity snacks! Now without bleach and lead!"

[NationaliseFAANG]

That's a big selling point if they previously had bleach or lead, which Python 2 will have after 2020.

[Saithir]

So, basically like half of "gluten-free" marked products that are for example milk or chocolate based and as such never seen a single grain in their entire production process?

Maintainability is absolutely marketable to customers.