I can't agree with you more here, Python 3.0 was a major flop, forcing internationalization down everyone's throats, and screwing up string operations for everyone else.
On Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:26:48 AM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > I believe the non-backward compatibility of Python 3.0 and the > monopolization of major conferences by Django (which was great 5 years ago > but it loses to most of the other frameworks by now) are part of the cause. > > The other cause I think the raise of multi core processors. Python does > not handle them well. The only option is multi-process applications but > their are not very easy to write. This is not a problem for web > applications. > > I also think the drop to be significant although not necessarily a long > term trend. Python could rebound easily by: > > - extending the life of 2.x with 2.8 (including as much goodies from 3.x > as possible but backward compatibility) and promising LTS > - merging stackles and/or gevent > - including a standard request/response objects in the libraries > - include the request library as replacement for urlib/urlib2 > - provide a windows distribution which includes PIL/NumPi/SciPy and is not > commercial > - stop the Django community from monopolizing every forum (it is still > losing to Rails and therefore not the future) and emphasize diversity. > - stop the purists who do bash Python projects that are working and > popular for not being Pythonic (whatever it means, you do not hear of Java > projects not being Javonic). > - go back to target schools. I was at PyCon and it is mostly a recruiting > place where consultants advertise themselves and their companies. Very few > talks are technical. Meanwhile many schools are moving away from Python in > favor of JavaScript. This makes no sense to me but perhaps there is > something that can be done. > > > > Massimo > > > On Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:42:08 UTC-5, Ovidio Marinho wrote: >> >> The fall of the python's fault Django and Python 3.0? >> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html >> >
