Comment by zzzeek

And yet python tops the Tiobe index anyway. The python 3 transition was not that big a deal, and I migrated or assisted in the migration of many codebases some of which are as big as they get (openstack). the ten year thing especially made it really gradual, and we're all done now. Python 3 is great. Folks migrating to rust / go etc are looking at performance concerns for high volume server software, which python is simply never going to specialize in, and for which rust and go were both introduced only very recently. They didn't switch because python 3 was so disappointing.