[gyulai]

> What I do appreciate that's missing from many other languages and systems is the extreme committment to backwards compatibility.

Is that even something they're doing on purpose? Didn't they completely botch their attempt at a new major version?

When Python moved from Python 2 to Python 3, introducing breaking changes, there was enough velocity and acceleration in the Python ecosystem for people to be willing to take the pain.

With Perl it's inertia. So even if the language designers and package maintainers wanted to make breaking changes, they couldn't, because people would just stop updating. All that's left to do is to drag out the process of this ecosystem rotting away.

[forgotmypw17]

It doesn't really matter to me whether it is on purpose or not.

All I know is that I can depend on my Perl scripts running a year from now, and I cannot do that with Python.

It feels alive and well to me in that sense, while the stability and dependability of Python does seem to rot pretty quickly.

[wazoox]

> When Python moved from Python 2 to Python 3, introducing breaking changes, there was enough velocity and acceleration in the Python ecosystem for people to be willing to take the pain.

Paint me unconvinced. Python2 is still a thing, 14 years later.