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by otakucode 3393 days ago
Ha, no. Google can continue toiling away in the caves of antiquarian history if they like, but anyone with half a brain will be using Python 3. All the things mentioned, built in concurrency, speed, easy package management, are all in Python 3. I have no idea why Google doubled down on Python 2.7 years ago. I mean, generally they are competent technical folks. But 2.7 is littered with all kinds of obtuse mis-steps in the development of the language. And it's missed out on the last several years of feature addition to Python 3 (asynchronous primitives among other things). Why would one plant their flag in something like that? And I mean come on... print as a keyword? How can anyone not spit at that?