nixCraft 🐧Python dominates the IT world, especially in automation and many other areas. If you ever need a quick boost to your resume and job profile, try to master it. It's not perfect, but it gets the job done. Python is in demand for everything from writing web apps to IT infrastructure and more. The best part? It is easy to learn. It is the new basic.
Howard Chu @ Symas@nixCraft just don't forget to relearn it and rewrite all your scripts whenever a new version comes out. https://mastodon.social/@hyc/113773392521070242
kasperdApart from the switch from Python 2 to Python 3, I don't recall any Python release, which fundamentally broke backwards compatibility.
I don't think that deprecating Python 2 was the right choice even though a new version has been available for several years. As far as I know you can still compile ANSI C code using the latest version of GCC.
There has been certain practices in how Python programs were invoked, which could lead to accidentally invoking it with a different Python version than intended. With a correct #! line at the top of the program and a correctly installed Python interpreter, that should not happen.
emberquill 
@hyc @nixCraft To be fair, that post is about issues someone is having with selenium, one of the most notoriously fragile third-party Python libraries in existence.
If you want to control a headless browser instead of just making raw http requests, then your code is going to be prone to breakage no matter what language you use.