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Python is still going strong. I use Python as well and still haven't found anything as good for getting started and running quickly without having some crazy typing rules or other "warts". There is not "Python: The Good Parts" book for a reason. Also for what I do Python has been plenty fast.

I wrote C modules here and there. Used cffi, that works great so far.

The thing is that those that don't switch languages usually don't write blog posts and those don't end up on HN (sorry for repeating it, I've already mentioned this in a sibling post). So the impression is that that's it Python and Node.js is dead, we should switch to something else.

Presumably in 2 years we'll see "We are switching from Go to <Rust|SomeLispThing|Swift|OtherNewThing>" posts. It won't mean Go won't still work well.

As for 2 vs 3. Yeah I am in the naysayers for 3. Sorry, for fueling the flames. But from my perspective it came too late and it didn't have enough benefits (or rather 2 didn't have big enough warts) so it ended up being very painful. I still plan on staying with 2 for now. We'll see if 3.5 or 3.6 bring about better tempting features and more 3 library ports get stabilized.