On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 00:47:04 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
I'm not exaggerating here. Python, a language which was much more popular than D at the time, came out with two versions in 2008: Python 2.7 which had numerous unicode problems, and Python 3.0 which fixed those problems. Almost eight years later, and Python 2 is STILL the more popular version despite Py3 having five major point releases since and Python 2 only getting security patches. Think the tango vs phobos problem, only a little worse.
To hammer this home a little more, Python 3 had a really useful library in order to abstract most of the differences automatically. But despite that, here is a list of the top 200 Python packages in 2011, three years after the fork, and if they supported Python 3 or not: https://web.archive.org/web/20110215214547/http://python3wos.appspot.com/
This is _three years_ later, and only 18 out of the top 200 supported Python 3.
And here it is now, eight years later, at 174 out of 200 https://python3wos.appspot.com/
