At 10:55 PM 6/19/2010 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
They really don't care that writing Python 3 was fun, and that programming in Python 3 is more fun than ever. That doesn't compensate for even one lingering str/bytes bogosity to most of them, and since they don't get paid for fixing Python library bugs, they don't, and they're in no mood to *forgive* any, either.
This is pretty much where I'm at, except that the only potential fun increase Py3 appears to offer me are argument annotations and keyword-only args -- but these are partly balanced by the loss of argument tuple unpacking. The metaclass keyword argument is nice, but the loss of dynamically-settable __metaclass__ is just plain annoying.
Really, just about everything that Py3 offers in the way of added fun, seems offset by a matching loss somewhere else. So it's hard to get excited about it - it seems like, "ho hum, a new language that's kind of like Python, but just different enough to be annoying."
OTOH, I don't know what to do about that, besides adding some sort of "killer app" feature that makes Python 3 the One Obvious Way to do some specific application domain.
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