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Security quotes of the week

Security quotes of the week

Posted Sep 22, 2016 19:08 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Security quotes of the week by pboddie
Parent article: Security quotes of the week

Python 2 is not better because it's stable. It's better because it's _better_ than Python 3 trash fire.


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Security quotes of the week

Posted Sep 23, 2016 20:59 UTC (Fri) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link]

It is less to do with better or stable and more to do with how much work is generated and for whose benefit that work is done. Here, the benefit of fixing security oversights in one's own code arguably outweighs the cost of tracking the accompanying API changes, and yet the observation is made that people don't bother.

Now consider a less favourable perception of the benefits of something - Python 3 - and it shouldn't be a mystery as to why people aren't tracking that particular, very demanding, programme of change. But maybe it remains a mystery to some people because they perceive Python 3 adoption in general, along with the work it creates, to be more important than the necessary work created when potentially urgent security issues are addressed.

Security quotes of the week

Posted Sep 23, 2016 21:45 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

That's a matter of opinion. I recently had occasion to start a large new project for work in Python 3 and so far I like it just fine. I think that in various respects it is nicer and more convenient than Python 2.

(I still have large swathes of Python 2 code from different projects that I don't exactly look forward to port to Python 3 eventually; it's just that for green-field development Python 3 seems perfectly OK to me.)


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