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But it was done slowly enough not to piss anyone off.



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.


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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