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by ForHackernews 2153 days ago
> over the next 6 months

My point is this is a very different situation from the Python 2->3 transition.

If you have 12 years' notice to make some changes, I don't consider that technical debt: that's the normal price of maintaining software in a changing world. It's not "debt" that costs "extra interest" to pay back for questionable choices made previously.