LWN discussion re Go 2

This is adapted from a thread in the comments on “Fedora ponders the Python 2 end game” at LWN.

Posted Aug 1, 2017 22:57 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)

This is the perfect time to migrate from Python 2 to Go. You'll be done just in time to find out firsthand whether Go 2 actually meets their goal of not splitting the Go ecosystem...

Posted Aug 1, 2017 23:52 UTC (Tue) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)

So, can we say it's time to Go, but not to Go 2? What would Dijkstra say about that?

Posted Aug 2, 2017 3:36 UTC (Wed) by tome (subscriber, #3171)

He'd say ouch but he'd be unharmed.

Posted Aug 2, 2017 3:49 UTC (Wed) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545)

That is a fairly considered opinion.