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by WorldMaker 3379 days ago
The biggest issue was Python standardizing on Unicode by default in Python 3 and breaking backward compatibility with a lot of (bad) string handling code the hard way by also forcing developers to unlearn a lot of old habits.

JS won't experience a directly similar thing because it started with default Unicode strings support (because it had to, and also because JS is slightly younger than Python and had that advantage).