alt Hacker NewsIt really speaks to how great the technical team can be. As crazy as it sounds Goldman Sacks and JP Morgan both maintained 2.7 Python as a core language until just a few years ago (yes, it's still used in production).
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lokar • yesterday at 2:52 PM
I have run into other large (well known) financial companies on 2.x as well. They were using our old unsupported SDK and some long planned and communicated service API change broke them. They could not update to any recent SDK. I did gently point out their python version was 10+ years out of date.
NooneAtAll3 • yesterday at 6:01 PM
if anything, it only shows just how bad breaking backward compatibility is - py3 was released in '06, 20 years ago
mohamedkoubaa • yesterday at 2:28 PM
Maybe the bank bailouts were a mistake
https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html