But maybe every crisis is an opportunity, as the cheesy motto says.

Maybe Python 3 can help revive Python.

You see, it’s not just the Python 2 to Python 3 migration that’s troubling. We’re not in 2005 anymore, and newer programmers are not that impressed with either version of Python. Sure, there are lots of Python jobs, but then again, there are even more Java jobs. And once upon a time there were many Perl jobs — I hear they’re not doing that well nowadays. I’m not talking about job count or GitHub repos. I’m talking about mindshare and enthusiasm, and I know that these are a little subjective, but I feel like Python has been lacking in these two regards as of late.

For example we see people going from Python to Go.

Again, they’re not many, but they are quite vocal (including whole startup dev teams blogging about switching their codebase), and enough to create a certain buzz (and to surprise Rob Pike, who initially expected people to come to Go from C/C++).