[joshwa]

Knowing how so many devs are hungry to move to the new shiny thing, the question is often more like "why hasn't this been rewritten in Python3 already?".

Possible answers:

• Legit technical or cost/benefit reasons

• Probably a good idea but no budget/time for the effort

• Somebody already tried and it was a disaster

• No manager has been stupid enough to humor the devs

[nine_k]

Most reasonable devs are not jackdaws and do not want a "new and shiny" thing for its shine.

Mostly devs want to go away from the old and increasingly creaky thing. And when the cost / benefit ration is finally right (that is, it's creaking loud enough and slows things down much enough), the move hopefully happens.

[Aeolun]

> Most reasonable devs are not jackdaws

Most devs are not reasonable.