Python discusses deprecations

Posted Dec 14, 2021 9:26 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Python discusses deprecations by khim
Parent article: Python discusses deprecations

> Still… python popularity never ceases to amaze me: so many were burned by it — yet people still continue to use it… why? What does it have that other, more stable languages, doesn't have?
> I guess that would remain mystery for the foreseeable future.

Languages don't thrive in a vacuum. There is a whole host of libraries that work very well and lots of components that you might want to work with provide language bindings and Python is among those that tend to come with good support (docs etc). The incompatibility was a hassle and I do strongly feel that it could have been handled better even if it the outcome after the changes were better code but the popularity itself isn't a mystery at all.