How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations
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How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations
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Re: How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations
#2Interesting write-up, though it leaves me terrified how a relatively small, more or less single purpose application like the Dropbox client has over 1 million lines of code in Python alone.
Re: How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations
#3I would have thought that Go would be perfect for this sort of system-level-like programming ?
Re: How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations
#4I would have thought that Go would be perfect for this sort of system-level-like programming ?
Looks like they already have Rust/C++/obj-c in use, which all fill that purpose a bit better than Go would.
Re: How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations
#5I would have thought that Go would be perfect for this sort of system-level-like programming ?
Go wasn't a thing in 2007.
Re: How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations
#6I would have thought that Go would be perfect for this sort of system-level-like programming ?
Go wasn't created until 2009 and Dropbox already had tons of Python code by then as well as extremely accomplished Python programmers (they hired the creator of Python only a few years later). I also don't think Go would have allowed the tight integration with, for example, OS X where Dropbox actually superimposes their icons onto your Finder icons. As far as I understand, it was only because of smart programming and use of OS X's Python / Ruby bridge functionality that they were able to do it.
Re: How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations
#7They forgot step 1 - hire the creator of Python... But seriously, that's an interesting post.
Re: How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations
#8Interesting write-up, though it leaves me terrified how a relatively small, more or less single purpose application like the Dropbox client has over 1 million lines of code in Python alone.
Dropbox doesn't feel that small or "single purpose" to me anymore.
Re: How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations
#9Interesting write-up, though it leaves me terrified how a relatively small, more or less single purpose application like the Dropbox client has over 1 million lines of code in Python alone.
> small
> more or less single purpose application
> Dropbox client
Heh.
Re: How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations
#10I would have thought that Go would be perfect for this sort of system-level-like programming ?
Go wasn't created until 2009 and Dropbox already had tons of Python code by then as well as extremely accomplished Python programmers (they hired the creator of Python only a few years later). I also don't think Go would have allowed the tight integration with, for example, OS X where Dropbox actually superimposes their icons onto your Finder icons. As far as I understand, it was only because of smart programming and…
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