On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. <sfour...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > my initial reason for even looking at GO, was because, I noticed that if > I > > wanted to move my largest clients app from Python 2.x to 3.x it was > almost a > > rewrite..... and then when I noticed the libraries for python 3.x were > > limited, and some python 2.x libraries are not even making a 3.x > version... > > > > Well I got scared, Go started to look attractive, because your no longer > > comparing GO to the entire python community, it is GO vs python 3... > > If your Python 2 -> Python 3 transition was "almost a rewrite", then > either your code is making horribly messy assumptions about bytes vs > text everywhere (in which case the pain will happen, Py3 just forces > you to deal with it up-front instead of burying your head in the sand > and wishing "funny characters" would go away), or you did the > transition wrongly. It's not a complete change of language. > > And, what libraries are you short of for Python 3? List them! Maybe > they do exist now. Nearly everything important does, there are only a > handful of large/popular 2.x-only modules. And if you talk about > what's missing, you demonstrate the need for those ports, which might > be the impetus someone needs to make it available. > > There's way too much vague FUD about Python 3. Everyone who complains > does so with "oh, there aren't many libraries for Python 3", not with > "PyFooBar isn't available for Python 3", which would actually be > useful. > > ChrisA > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > Thanks your your input chris, honestly it was the end of 2012 when I looked into a large py3 port for a client. I wrote a very large web project on Cheetah, and at the time there wasnt a Py3 port... Now I get that back when I wrote this code years before, I should have chose something else.. I remember doing some browsing around, and the pooco people that make jinja2 were not fans of python3(I forget the blog post), I got scared because a very large portion of my income was based on a single client... So since we were having scalability issues anyway, I moved them to GO, and it was a Win - Win, the GO standard lib does so much, and the scalability gains we received over python were so large, that we were able to reduce out AWS bill so much that I could hire another coder. I really like python, and we use it a ton, but a python like compiled language did wonders for us when we needed it most. Sam Fourman Jr. -- Sam Fourman Jr.
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