The Case Against Autodecode

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 00:47:04 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> I'm not exaggerating here. Python, a language which was much 
> more popular than D at the time, came out with two versions in 
> 2008: Python 2.7 which had numerous unicode problems, and 
> Python 3.0 which fixed those problems. Almost eight years 
> later, and Python 2 is STILL the more popular version despite 
> Py3 having five major point releases since and Python 2 only 
> getting security patches. Think the tango vs phobos problem, 
> only a little worse.

To hammer this home a little more, Python 3 had a really useful 
library in order to abstract most of the differences 
automatically. But despite that, here is a list of the top 200 
Python packages in 2011, three years after the fork, and if they 
supported Python 3 or not: 
https://web.archive.org/web/20110215214547/http://python3wos.appspot.com/

This is _three years_ later, and only 18 out of the top 200 
supported Python 3.

And here it is now, eight years later, at 174 out of 200 
https://python3wos.appspot.com/