r/Python • u/SheriffRoscoe Pythonista • 8d ago

News The Move to Python 3 Begins!

As someone who spent decades in the mainframe community, I find it ... humorous ... that there are legacy Python2 code bases that are only just (or have yet to consider!) moving to Python3.

https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins

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u/diegoasecas 8d ago

idgi if you spent decades working on mainframes you'd know how hard is to migrate legacy working code

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u/boringfantasy git push -f 8d ago

With AI? Trivial. See bun.

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u/SheriffRoscoe Pythonista 8d ago edited 8d ago

Funny, I was just reading the other day how horribly the Rust rewrite of bun is going.

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u/SheriffRoscoe Pythonista 8d ago

Found the link: https://tipiirai.com/writing/bun-rust-rewrite-worries

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u/kaddkaka 8d ago

Seems like it was released 2 days after that blog: August 20, 2026

https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.4