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by namekuseijin 3918 days ago
are people still learning python? eons ago when I last looked at it, people were still making this very question LOL

it's the curse of open source software: as long as the source is out there, people with legacy software will continue updating it. Perl 6 was long in the making, never made any real inroads because all of its audience was already readily invested in perl 5.

it only really works with commercial tools, because people will whine much but eventually bend over and buy Microsoft's or Oracle's latest bloated money grabber. Because there's no option, right?