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fny
9 months ago
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Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0
But it was done slowly enough not to piss anyone off.
tonyedgecombe
9 months ago
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The transition to Python 3 took a very long time. I often wonder if they would have saved themselves a ton of grief if they had done it quicker.
0x457
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That's not what they meant. Ruby made breaking change by breaking change, and it was still easy to have gems work with both ABI versions. Python 3 had changes that made it necessary challenging to support both, all while being slower (IIRC).
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