On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 at 07:36 Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
On Oct 6, 2015 4:31 AM, "Maciej Fijalkowski" <fijall@gmail.com> wrote:
There was a discussion a while ago about python 3 and the attitude on social media and there was a lack of examples. Here is one example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/3nl5ut/ninite_the_popular_website_t...
According to some people, it is everybodys job to promote python 3 and force people to upgrade. This is really not something I enjoy (people telling me pypy should promote python 3 - it's not really our job).
I'm not a core dev so I don't really have a dog in this fight (except that I do like python 3 the language), but: in the interests of having a more productive discussion, can you elaborate on what specifically you found frustrating about that link? It seems to be a page of people talking in a measured way about the trade offs between python 2 and python 3. It looked to me like probably the majority opinion expressed was that for the poster's personal uses python 3 was superior for specific reasons that they described, but people generally seemed very respectful and open to the possibility that their experience wasn't universal. Your email had me expecting something very different, so I'm wondering what I'm missing.
I'm in the same position as Nathaniel. I was expecting a flood of comments yelling that not supporting Python 3 was horrible and they should be burned at the stake for heresy or something. Instead I found very reasonable responses to questions and only 2 people who went overboard, both of whom admitted they were wrong when their arguments were shown to be extreme or invalid. While I can imagine the kind of responses that Glyph was talking about at the language summit I don't quite see how this is an example of that.