The corollary of my complaint is there will always be someone who pops up on HN with no idea how many lines of code are in a "large project" like Dropbox or YouTube.
Is Dropbox open source? Is Dropbox even a typical Python application representative of the challenges of porting from 2 to 3?
My hunch is that the challenges of porting Dropbox to any other language have to do less with Python more with the need to deal with a filesystem at a lower and more granular level than what typical programming languages offer. Thus everything needs to be rewritten in bazillions of ways to handle the bazillion corner cases.
glofish|6 years ago
Is Dropbox open source? Is Dropbox even a typical Python application representative of the challenges of porting from 2 to 3?
My hunch is that the challenges of porting Dropbox to any other language have to do less with Python more with the need to deal with a filesystem at a lower and more granular level than what typical programming languages offer. Thus everything needs to be rewritten in bazillions of ways to handle the bazillion corner cases.