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1. jcranm+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-11-19 22:47:29
Python 2.7 was EOL'd at the start of 2020, and serious effort to move from 2 to 3 didn't start until around 2018, by which time Go was a very major player.
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2. Camouf+l9[view] [source] 2025-11-19 23:51:06
>>jcranm+(OP)
Major-ish. It was getting experimental module support around 2018; arguably go get was already better than Python's mess, but it wasn't great. It wasn't that widespread in industry yet - we could very rarely hire anyone with a Go background at that point.
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3. notepa+Ue[view] [source] 2025-11-20 00:38:33
>>jcranm+(OP)
I meant when 3.0 was released. By the time 2.7 was EOL'd 3.0 had gained enough momentum to be a viable alternative. It was easier to just migrate to 3.0.

In 2018, I don't know if Go was a major player, both it and rust were still new-ish languages. There was still a concern of being able to hire devs if you used them, where as not so much in the past 4-5 years.

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4. loeg+Fm[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-11-20 01:41:58
>>notepa+Ue
> By the time 2.7 was EOL'd 3.0 had gained enough momentum to be a viable alternative. It was easier to just migrate to 3.0.

~3.8 at the time, not 3.0. 3.0 was a mess.

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5. loeg+3n[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-11-20 01:44:52
>>Camouf+l9
Pretty major. I started using Go in like 2009 or 2010 and industry adoption was already pretty wide in the mid 2010s (largely replacing Java moreso than Python, IMO).
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