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by adamc 598 days ago
2 to 3 broke lots of code. Print became a function. Imports moved around. And there were subtle changes in the semantics of some things. Famously, strings changed, and that definitely affected a lot of packages.

Quite a bit of that could be fixed by automated tooling, but not all of it, and the testing burden was huge, which meant a lot of smaller packages did not convert very quickly and there were ripple effects.

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Yes 2 to 3 changed things. We’re discussing what changed in between different versions of 3.