Results from the @ThePSF and #PythonDevSurvey show #Python 3 is firmly here, and people are upgrading to the most recent versions each year:
Results from the @ThePSF and #PythonDevSurvey show #Python 3 is firmly here, and people are upgrading to the most recent versions each year:
Results from the @ThePSF and @jetbrains #PythonDevSurvey show #Python 3 is firmly here, and people are upgrading to the most recent versions each year:
https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-developers-survey-2023/#python-versions
Sure Python3. I wouldn't say everyone is updating to the latest versions though. 15% of people still on a version that's over 5 years old is pretty bad. Most modern languages have pretty much everyone on the latest version.
It's because until very recently getting the latest version of Python has been very difficult (at least on Linux). The official answer for how to do it was "compile it from source" which is kind of ridiculous.
Fortunately we finally have a better option - Rye (and maybe uv now?) can install recent versions for you. Hopefully that will improve matters.
From my experience with legacy codebases, I can say that upgrading a minor version of Python is not the same as seamlessly upgrading a minor version of Go. Mainly because of standard library changes, like deprecations or removals.
Also, corpos usually provide its own system bundles with checked/approved software, which usually include not-so-fresh versions.
@FizzyOrange
> 15% of people still on a version that’s over 5 years old is pretty bad.Which version/year is that?
> Most modern languages have pretty much everyone on the latest version.
I'd be very interested in some stats, if you happen to know some.
> Fortunately we finally have a better option - Rye (and maybe uv now?) can install recent versions for you. Hopefully that will improve matters.
Yeah, uv can do that, I'm also hopeful!
Which version/year is that?
3.8 or less. 3.8 was released 5 years ago.
I’d be very interested in some stats, if you happen to know some.
Not easy to find, but: Rust survey from some years ago. Reddit Node survey (Node actually provides download stats but they're raw JSON.) You could also figure out Typescript but again probably needs some processing.
Go actually automatically downloads new compiler versions for you.