If Golang was around, it might have killed python then I think. To many, the 2->3 jump made little sense. I honestly wish they just started a new language instead.

I still to this day stumble upon code I have to use 2.7 on, thankfully things like pipx make it easy these days. but still,switching back and forth could be a pain.

But you're right, it wasn't like Perl 6. People moved to python and php mostly from perl. what were going to move to from python 2? Ruby?

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jcranmer 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Python 2.7 was EOL'd at the start of 2020, and serious effort to move from 2 to 3 didn't start until around 2018, by which time Go was a very major player.

	▲	notepad0x90 16 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I meant when 3.0 was released. By the time 2.7 was EOL'd 3.0 had gained enough momentum to be a viable alternative. It was easier to just migrate to 3.0. In 2018, I don't know if Go was a major player, both it and rust were still new-ish languages. There was still a concern of being able to hire devs if you used them, where as not so much in the past 4-5 years.
	▲	CamouflagedKiwi an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Major-ish. It was getting experimental module support around 2018; arguably go get was already better than Python's mess, but it wasn't great. It wasn't that widespread in industry yet - we could very rarely hire anyone with a Go background at that point.