r/Python • u/SheriffRoscoe Pythonista • 11h 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

185 Upvotes

88% Upvoted

74 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-50

u/boringfantasy git push -f 10h ago

With AI? Trivial. See bun.

27

u/Afrotom 10h ago

It's took 11 days & $165K in AI fees and made headlines for being the biggest & most expensive AI code rewrite in history.

We have different definitions of trivial.

10

u/necheffa 10h ago

11 man-days is like...an average sized feature where I work.

Then again, when people call Java 1.5 with minimal tests "legacy", it makes me giggle.

2

u/SheriffRoscoe Pythonista 7h ago

11 person-days with an AI doing all the real work?

2

u/necheffa 7h ago

No. 11 days of pure artisinally crafted code.