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>>todsac+(OP)
Perl6/Raku killed Perl.

Python 3 almost killed Python.

It's normal. Once a community loses faith, it's hard to stop them from leaving.

>>deafpo+93
> Python 3 almost killed Python.

People were being crybabies; the critics were extremely vocal and few. Python 3 improved the language in every way and the tooling to upgrade remains unmatched.

>>MangoT+24
Python 3 was a disaster and enterprises were still undertaking pointless 2->3 upgrade projects 10 years later

>>symbog+B4
Except that Python took the other path when migrating from Python 1 to Python 2 and ... guess what? That was a "disaster" too.

The only difference was that by the time of Python 3, Python programs were orders of magnitude bigger so the pain was that much worse.