On: Sunsetting Python 2

[ilikehurdles]

This is such a good analogy, and really highlights the point that python 2 stalwarts look at organizations hiring for FORTRAN and COBOL today, and say to themselves, "Yes, this is the kind of organization I want to build." An organization that will either (most likely) be completely irrelevant in 10 years time or have to pay a massive premium salary for any engineer that can maintain their systems.

[wumpus → ilikehurdles]

Not only are there scientific disciplines where modern Fortran is still dominant, but there isn't much of a salary premium for working there.

And people said what you said about it 10 years ago. And 20 years ago. And 30 years ago.

When those folks want to do scripting, they mostly use Python. And they mostly use Py3, from what I can see.