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• Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Are you denying the problem of Backwards compatibility with python versions? It was and still is a big problem today. I’m still seeing the affects of that though many communities. I don’t really think it’s only good for tinkering but I know its developers clearly do, otherwise they wouldn’t have subjected us to the transition from python 2.7 to python 3 and people wouldn’t have been so eager to comply with them dropping python 2.7 support before you could say bitrot.

  Yeah somehow that doesn’t give me much confidence for the future.

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  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Python 2 transition took decades and EOL was almost a decade ago, get over it. If you still want to use it, use it!

    I don’t understand this approach at all. Software evolves and sometimes you need breaking changes. Godot did it as well, but I guess that “great for tinkering” as well.

    It fills me with confidence that the language is the most widely used in the world and is not afraid to do what must be done instead of growing stale and unwieldly so that lazy developers don’t learn anything new.

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    • Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes I don’t think that demolishing whole ecosystems is a good thing. I think that it’s a shitty mentality of wanting shiny and new shit and fixing what isn’t broken. I am a believer in legacy support and I find it weird and concerning to see and hear people complain about it. You do realize that if Python had been the Web’s scripting engine instead of JS, a lot of Websites would’ve been, and still would be trashed and unusable due to said breaking changes with zero regard for legacy support. Thankfully that wasn’t the case, but it does go to show that legacy support and backwards compatibility is important.

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      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Again, python 2 still exists. nothing would be “trashed”. If you want backwards compatibility just keep using python2. We clearly don’t see things the same way, but given that python is the most popular languge in the world, I’m happy most see it my way.

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      • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        But python isn’t the webs scripting engine. If it was, browsers would have support for python3 and 2.

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