[HexDecOctBin]

There are C codebases many decades old still being actively maintained and used. I don't think the same is true for Python on the same scale. It's easy to remodel when you are on the top of abstraction layer, but you don't want to mess around with the foundational infrastructure unnecessarily.

[zbentley]

Absolutely. But there’s so much more liberty in C land in that you can stay on an old compiler/language version for such codebases.

I know it’s not pleasant per se, but the level of support needed (easier now with docker and better toolchain version management utils than were the norm previously) surely doesn’t merit compilers carrying around the volume of legacy cruft and breaking-change aversion they do, no?