Few reasons and there's more but I won't go on forever.
1)The "latest version" of a programming language is not the same as having the latest version of Firefox. Having the latest version can actually be a detriment if you lose libraries as with Python3.
2)It may be unpopular, but I tend to follow the market to a certain degree. Python is my language of choice for home projects and employment. But almost all employers use Python2.x. So I follow them just to keep 1 less hassle out of my life.
3)Losing the long tail of libraries that 2.x has. Many things support Python3, and I'm not against it. I'm just waiting for the day when Python3 is more convenient than Python2 to move. I wasn't one asking for the Py3 changes, and they certainly weren't done for me. So I don't feel like being inconvenienced or doing any porting/heavy lifting in the meantime.
4)My petty reason. I think everyone should just do what's in their best interests.
I advertised that "2 of course" because it is a given, but rarely stated. I've met a number of pushy Python3 folks and find them distasteful, which hasn't helped budge me in the slightest. They've probably made me a little edgy on that topic.
5)It's a programming language, so what helps you build something the fastest should be what we use. Today that's still Python2. Some people feel very passionately about Python3 and I hope they spend many hours porting and building the ecosystem for my arrival one day. What seems to be going on instead is they're hoping to convert more devotees that will go out there and do a bunch of free ports.
6)I'm more concerned with moving too early than I am too late when the Python3 ecosystem one day, maybe, eclipses Python2. They're just not that different, I've used both and it's no different from building software with 2. But they have vastly different breadth of libraries in 2's favor. They also screwed up on a few things with 3, it isn't really a flat "upgrade" either.
7)Python3 is just adding more bloat. I generally prefer features are REMOVED from a language until there's nothing left that could reasonably be removed from the core language. Ideally I'd like to see a small version of Python with the basics never touched and features added through addons or a macro system.
Latest version, upgrade, and support-ends-2020 are all political statements in regards to Python3 that mean nothing in reality.
Latest version- what can't be backported?
Upgrade- more like sidegrade once all things are considered.
Support EOL- total smoke and mirrors, code will not stop running post 2020.
They're tossing every feature against the wall that they can to fix that. I'm one that holds feature-soup in disdain though so this is unattractive to me, and I prefer a well thought out "one way to do it" (Zen of Python) approach. Python is well beyond the basics at this point and not a small language, but at least 2.7 is frozen and I can choose to use the backports people provide if I want. I like a smaller core language if possible because I have to read other people's codebases.
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Few reasons and there's more but I won't go on forever.
1)The "latest version" of a programming language is not the same as having the latest version of Firefox. Having the latest version can actually be a detriment if you lose libraries as with Python3.
2)It may be unpopular, but I tend to follow the market to a certain degree. Python is my language of choice for home projects and employment. But almost all employers use Python2.x. So I follow them just to keep 1 less hassle out of my life.
3)Losing the long tail of libraries that 2.x has. Many things support Python3, and I'm not against it. I'm just waiting for the day when Python3 is more convenient than Python2 to move. I wasn't one asking for the Py3 changes, and they certainly weren't done for me. So I don't feel like being inconvenienced or doing any porting/heavy lifting in the meantime.
4)My petty reason. I think everyone should just do what's in their best interests. I advertised that "2 of course" because it is a given, but rarely stated. I've met a number of pushy Python3 folks and find them distasteful, which hasn't helped budge me in the slightest. They've probably made me a little edgy on that topic.
5)It's a programming language, so what helps you build something the fastest should be what we use. Today that's still Python2. Some people feel very passionately about Python3 and I hope they spend many hours porting and building the ecosystem for my arrival one day. What seems to be going on instead is they're hoping to convert more devotees that will go out there and do a bunch of free ports.
6)I'm more concerned with moving too early than I am too late when the Python3 ecosystem one day, maybe, eclipses Python2. They're just not that different, I've used both and it's no different from building software with 2. But they have vastly different breadth of libraries in 2's favor. They also screwed up on a few things with 3, it isn't really a flat "upgrade" either.
7)Python3 is just adding more bloat. I generally prefer features are REMOVED from a language until there's nothing left that could reasonably be removed from the core language. Ideally I'd like to see a small version of Python with the basics never touched and features added through addons or a macro system.
Latest version, upgrade, and support-ends-2020 are all political statements in regards to Python3 that mean nothing in reality. Latest version- what can't be backported? Upgrade- more like sidegrade once all things are considered. Support EOL- total smoke and mirrors, code will not stop running post 2020.
They're tossing every feature against the wall that they can to fix that. I'm one that holds feature-soup in disdain though so this is unattractive to me, and I prefer a well thought out "one way to do it" (Zen of Python) approach. Python is well beyond the basics at this point and not a small language, but at least 2.7 is frozen and I can choose to use the backports people provide if I want. I like a smaller core language if possible because I have to read other people's codebases.