[Baypiggies] Companies moving to Python 3?

[Martin Falatic]

That's pretty cool!

I currently work on OpenStack, which has been steadily working on Python 3
compatibility (something I'm proud to see - and for me it's one of many
examples of why Python3 is NOT Perl6!)

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Python3

 - Marty
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinfalatic


On Tue, October 13, 2015 20:22, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:
> When I got to Udemy, I was quite surprised that they had fully migrated
> to 3.4 :-D Twitter was still on 2.7.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:28 AM Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Are people seeing that any companies in the Bay Area are moving
>> to Python 3 in a major way?
>>
>> Recently, I have been porting some code from Python 2 to Python 3.
>> From a language purist perspective, I see that Python 3 is technically a
>>  better language.  Some of the new keywords in Python 3.5 like
>> async/await look pretty cool for making it easier to do asyncio
>> programming.
>>
>> However, from an end-user's perspective, the differences between Python
>> 2
>> and Python 3 are annoying.   Although certain features, like asyncio are
>>  interesting, for most major use cases, there doesn't seem to be any
>> "killer feature"
>> or performance boost to justify the effort of going to Python 3. While
>> many major packages have been ported to Python 3, there are still quite
>> a few major packages which are still stuck on Python 2.
>>
>> Despite these problems, I still like Python 3, and want to focus on
>> writing new code which works with it.  I was just curious if people are
>> seeing the move to Python 3 in production.
>>
>> --
>> Craig
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