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Discussion on: What makes you want to stick with a programming language?

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rhymes • Edited

Yeah, the PEP process has been contested a lot of times in the past but I think PEPs, plus ethos and its community (and obviously the creator) is what kept Python relevant and kept it from exploding throughout all these years.

Python is 27 years old and it had two main versions that changed the language: Python 2 which is 18 years old and Python 3 which is 10 years old.

Ten years later people are still complaining about the fact that Python 3 is not compatible with Python 2. It's kind of hilarious but it makes you understand how hardcore the core team is :-)