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It would have taken time to do this and consequently Python would have missed the race and some other language would now be #1.


> Python would have missed the race

Why do you think that? There's no need for a Python 2->3 like transition here, it could have been done while supporting the old C API for a while.


Python missed the race pretty heavily with 2to3 transition and still came out on top.


Survivorship bias. With version 2 they were already at the top.




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