On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 09:08:23PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > No, it's a demonstration of applications that aren't being properly > maintained when they're still using functions that have been deprecated for > 6 releases which is also that many years. Python core is very stable.
So... you're saying that the fact that *every* python release in the
past decade carries backwards-incompatible core changes is somehow an
indication of its "stability"?
(If you want "stability" in python you have to pin absolutely everything
in a per-applicaiton venv, including every [sub-]dependency and the
interpreter version. And $deity help you if you need some
relatively-bleeding-edge modules or have dependencies with conflicting
version needs. I spent the majority of my time at $dayjob-1 keeping on
top of the constant CI failures caused by the turtles-all-the-way-down
dependencies changing out from under us)
If you want a platform that is actually stable, take perl. They have an
explicit policy of never breaking existing software even if it means
carrying bugs forward indefinitely, and scripts/modules have to
explicitly opt into behavioral changes.
I have twenty-year-old perl scripts that still work just fine, but in my
experience, even couple-years-old python code most likely won't.
If perl is "write once, read nowhere" python is "write once, fix forever".
/rant
- Solomon
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