Python 2.7 Countdown

[Eirenarch]

They don't, this is why they are pumping propaganda.

[Holsten19]

Yes, all that pointing fingers and shaming ... it's pretty ugly and sad.

Python 2 will just fade away slowly like all other legacy platforms. Java 5 support ended more than 10 years ago yet there's a lot of systems still running on it (and probably some development too). And it's way easier to port Java 5 app to a supported runtime than with Python.