On 9/17/2020 3:59 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
... The writing has been on the wall for Python2 for nearly ten years. The EOL date has already been extended five years. It's time to let it go.
The big concern du jour in science community is: can you take your scripts from 10 years ago and re-run them, and will you get the same groundbreaking result that you published back then if so. That's the main motivation for singularity, among other things.
So no: you can't let it go. You can freeze-dry it in a container, and nobody will probably ever try to reproduce that old junk, but if you do "let it go" consider this: the next vaccine that gets injected in your bloodstream may have originated with a trivial bug in someone's 10yo python script, and the only way you find out is when you die in horrible pain.
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