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Okay, here is one of @StefanKarpinski’s good comments on the matter. If you search the Julia Discourse, you can also find many other good comments by Stefan on this matter.

1.0 adoption path?

The big issue was upgrade deadlock. Instead of making it possible for packages to support both Python 2 and 3 at the same time, the Python devs provided the 2to3 tool, hoping that the entire ecosystem would upgrade from Python 2 to 3 all at once. But upgrade effort turned out not to be what stymied the transition. Packages still needed to support Python 2 because most of their users were still using it. And since most packages stayed on Python 2, users did as well – if anything they depended on…