Szorc: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3

Posted Jan 13, 2020 23:30 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Szorc: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3 by ehiggs
Parent article: Szorc: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3

> Indeed and this is not the desired state of affairs. And Java's type system did not save it.
It did. I can run JDK 8 code in JDK 11 without any modifications, mixing and matching it freely with newer versions.

> Indeed and this is not the desired state of affairs. And Python's type system did not cause it.
Yes, they did. The string type was fundamentally changed, along with a significant chunk of the API.