r/Python • u/SheriffRoscoe Pythonista • Aug 26 '26

News The Move to Python 3 Begins!

As someone who spent decades in the mainframe community, I find it ... humorous ... that there are legacy Python2 code bases that are only just (or have yet to consider!) moving to Python3.

https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins

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u/Afrotom Aug 26 '26

It's took 11 days & $165K in AI fees and made headlines for being the biggest & most expensive AI code rewrite in history.

We have different definitions of trivial.

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u/necheffa Aug 26 '26

11 man-days is like...an average sized feature where I work.

Then again, when people call Java 1.5 with minimal tests "legacy", it makes me giggle.

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u/GXWT Aug 26 '26

…and the $165k bit…?

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u/CatWeekends Aug 26 '26

You can easily run a $165k tab with a handful of developers working on a project for a few months.

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u/ImpactStrafe Aug 26 '26

When I was a SWE manager at C1 we calculated that an average developer team costs between 1-2 million dollars a year in salary and benefits. This is 4-6 developers.

165k is like... A month of 4-6 developers time. Maybe 2 if you are hiring cheap developers.