It's called "moving forward". The technology sector moves fast, and you need to keep up. Nothing is ever going to get better with that sedentary mindset.
Well, if you ask me, backward compatibility should only be broken with extreme reluctance, because it's a huge waste of time to be rewriting things that already work. See also Angular 2.
Man, the amount of people and support going for Python 2.7 is mind boggling. Coming from another language, I find the slow adoption of Python 3 insane. Don't you want Python as a language to advance?
Python should've abandoned and deprecated 2 ages ago. I still see new tutorials teaching 2. What the hell.
A lot of people really dont care about the future of python, they just want to write code.
...and honestly, whats wrong with that?
really, what difference does it make if people use old python versions?
Other than the core python team, which get to be embarrased that many people have zero interest in the work theyre doing?
Does it affect you? nope. Does it break the ecosystem? nope. Does it make library authors suffer? nope (dont support it if you dont want to).
Come on. Live and let be.
If you love python3, use it. Dont winge pointlessly (not you personally; all the hostile frothing at the mouth python3 advocates, especially on reddit)
I think you missed the whole point of this thread. People want ongoing official support of Python 2.7, which involves resources that could be used elsewhere. Supporting stuff is not free, you know?
The "ongoing official support of Python 2.7" is what resulted in the creation of Python 3. Python 3 contains the enhancements that are meant to fix the (very real) problems that exist in Python 2.
I really don't know where else you think those resources could have been used that wouldn't have resulted in Python 3. Unless you consider "doing nothing meaningful" to be a form of support.
There was this project called emoji.js I think that you embed in your site and transforms all emoji it sees into Apple Emoji, the standard, and works for everyone even without emoji installed. give it a shot.
This exact concept has been done multiple times. And it never worked, because the syntax was horrible. And it's just not convenient at all, it's good for toying around with interpreters and the likes but it has no purpose or use. See https://m.reddit.com/r/coding/comments/3akmn1/sums_this_rel_...
