Comment by jjgreen
2 days ago
Perl was my first scripting language, I occasionally need to run some of those old scripts (15-20 years old), they always run. Python scripts last 6-12 months.
2 days ago
Perl was my first scripting language, I occasionally need to run some of those old scripts (15-20 years old), they always run. Python scripts last 6-12 months.
So if job security was a high priority for you, ...
> Python scripts last 6-12 months.
Not, if you know what you are doing.
"You're holding it wrong" ;-)
Every Python version is officially supported for 5 years. Tons of useful scripts don't require any dependencies outside the standard library, and I have code from very many years ago that has not been hit by any standard library deprecations (which have been in relatively obscure corners, honestly) and would work fine under current Python. (Of course, it helps that I was a relatively early 3.x adopter.) Conversely, what I write today should generally be backwards-compatible to 3.6 (f-strings are really neat, and `pathlib` semantics greatly improved in that version).
I mean, if you are not able to make a reproducible virtual environment, by using one of the popular package managers, like Poetry or uv, then yes, you are holding it wrong. If you are relying on requirements.txt merely pinning versions and not transitive dependencies, then yes, you are holding it wrong. In that case it would be a skill issue.
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