On: Ruby: A great language for shell scripts

[lolinder]

> It was a lot easier than our Python 2 to 3 conversations were.

Python's is (present tense very much intended) notoriously one of the worst-managed transitions in programming language history, so that's not exactly a ringing endorsement.

[KerrAvon → lolinder]

It is completely relevant, because it’s arguing against the claim that Ruby was unstable once back in 2005.

[lolinder → KerrAvon]

I didn't say it wasn't relevant, I said it wasn't a ringing endorsement. It can have been better than Python and still completely unbearable.