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>>TimWol+(OP)
As someone who has written in past a lot of PHP and Python, I find it interesting that PHP devs can do a lot of breaking changes, and don't get a huge amount of flak for it.

Python 2 -> 3 change really was painful for Python community, but PHP does these almost fundamental breaking changes so often, that maybe people just get used to it? I haven't really followed Python past version 2, but I think they are less likely to ever do such amount of breaking changes.

There must be a lot of unmaintained PHP codebases that will break if PHP is updated by hosting provider etc. Someone must be pulling a lot of hairs because of this.

Edit: Those dogpiling there, I rest my case with josefresco's comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33907628

It's painful. Dropping dynamic properties? That will be a lot of fun. WordPress is probably biggest segment for PHP usage.

>>Cianti+R7
Python was invented and heavily used before most people could even access the web, nevermind building dynamic websites. The web has always been churning heavily--HTML, browsers, JS, etc. changing and adding features etc. Web folks have always been dealing with churn. In contrast some people have scripted out tons of python code for managing computers, labs, etc. and they absolutely cannot and will not tolerate churn or things breaking with minor python releases.