Swift 3 is compiled. So you can provide the binaries and be ok.
Ruby 1.9 is a great example of why you should not be too nice: they told everybody "you have a fews months, deal with it". The community moved. Python said "poor things, we understand, take those tools and years to do the thing", and the community cried, and did nothing.
PHP literally failed. They canceled V6 and jumped to V7.
The funniest part ?
None of those languages are even close to Python popularity.
Swift is not even used for most Apple codebase. Python supported even Atari.
Ruby and PHP has almost no use case outside of the web. Python is used by OS, on the web, in GIS, by data analysts, for CGI, in AI, for sysadmin, to make GUI, video games...
And Python is much, MUCH older. 1990. 4/5 years older than Ruby/PHP. It has way more technical debt to pay. Swift ? 2014
Yeah the migration was badly handled from some aspects. But honestly, given the challenge and track record of the competition, it's not too shabby.
Ruby 1.9 was working mostly the same as 1.8 while provising 2-3x speed improvment, and new exciting features.
Python 3 breaks even the basic Python 2 hello world, everything was notably slower, and not anything new and exiciting feature-wise apart ubified string support.
Ruby 1.9 is a great example of why you should not be too nice: they told everybody "you have a fews months, deal with it". The community moved. Python said "poor things, we understand, take those tools and years to do the thing", and the community cried, and did nothing.
PHP literally failed. They canceled V6 and jumped to V7.
The funniest part ?
None of those languages are even close to Python popularity.
Swift is not even used for most Apple codebase. Python supported even Atari.
Ruby and PHP has almost no use case outside of the web. Python is used by OS, on the web, in GIS, by data analysts, for CGI, in AI, for sysadmin, to make GUI, video games...
And Python is much, MUCH older. 1990. 4/5 years older than Ruby/PHP. It has way more technical debt to pay. Swift ? 2014
Yeah the migration was badly handled from some aspects. But honestly, given the challenge and track record of the competition, it's not too shabby.