[natte]

Announcing Python 3.0. Support for Python 2.X will end on January 1, 2114 :P

Ok that was a silly joke, but seriously this is a good change and 2.1 is awesome. Keep moving Ruby forward!

[look_lookatme]

I think the proper analog here would be Python 2.x == 1.8, which was EOS'd in 2013.

Ruby made major syntactic additions in the 1.8 -> 1.9 transition, Unicode tweaks, Fibers and scoping changes. 2.x has really just built on top of that (despite making a major version change).