If you were writing major libraries that needed to work on both 2 and 3 like many of us were, I suspect your opinion would be different. It was never a case of 'oh we'll just switch to 3 now' because that's not at all how it worked.
> If people spent half as much energy upgrading as complaining, this would have gotten done 5 years ago.
Yeah, right. Look at the creator of Python himself. Took about 3 years to migrate just his employer, and that's a top-tier software shop [1].
I've heard many people talk like you over the years, always being dismissive of the cost to others in python 2 vs 3. The complaints against the migration were not unfounded.
> If people spent half as much energy upgrading as complaining, this would have gotten done 5 years ago.
Yeah, right. Look at the creator of Python himself. Took about 3 years to migrate just his employer, and that's a top-tier software shop [1].
I've heard many people talk like you over the years, always being dismissive of the cost to others in python 2 vs 3. The complaints against the migration were not unfounded.
1: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/09/how-we-rolled-out-one...