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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

At this point Python 2.7 should be forked into a new language. They could call it something like Daudin, after the person who coined the word Python for the genus of nonvenomous snakes

[–] falsem@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

You'd have to find someone interested in maintaining it for at least security fixes and I'm guessing everyone capable is more interested in just working on new stuff for Python 3.

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