Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Arch Linux Finally Puts An End To Python 2!!" video.

  1. If you want to understand why no one would push to maintain it, it's because Python as a language, whether 2 or 3, sucks. The changes in 3 are enough of an improvement and still similar enough in working that not many have problems updating code. Most of the problems really are with print, which is just F'd up. As for what you said about DOS, before my mom retired she worked for a company that still used DOS programs for their call center functionality. The company my dad worked for before he retired used DOS programs for their invoicing and shipping. The reasoning, as I understand it is, why pay to replace what still works. Sure, you could wind up with something better, and it might save you money in the long term, but the way industry keeps degrading as time goes on makes it far more likely that you'd wind up with something worse that would cost you way more money and you'd have to just go back to the old software anyway.
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  2.  @mk72v2oq  You can statically link C between language versions. On Windows you would compile code and store it in a .lib file, on Linux it'd be .a using `ar` to store it.
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  3.  @mk72v2oq  It's part of what makes C so great, as well as part of what holds it back. I'm annoyed that any new language would copy that so glibly, especially given that they should have a more crystallized design based on prior knowledge gains.
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  4.  @drgr33nUK  I wish it would kill Python, but it won't. There are far too many projects that use it and plenty of people will always want a language which fills the particular gap it fills.
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  5.  @aaw3  Don't you love builds that work out like that?
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