EVE Online moves to Python 3

Some basic sample code for stackless python, for those like me who had never heard of it: https://github.com/stackless-dev/stacklessexamples/blob/main...

Say "stackless tasklet" five times fast.

Can an experienced player gives us a summary of what's the "vibe" of the EVE online community these days? I was lightly involved ~15 years ago.

Stackless python had such potential, it could be extremely useful in Agent era for long running tasks with durable state.

modern Python went in a somewhat different direction with asyncio, but with tasklet and continuation it could be a much powerful combo.

> So how do you migrate 2.4 million lines of code?

> Very carefully, and in multiple stages.

That answer is so 3 months ago

When python started incorporating asyncio my initial reaction was fairly negative. I was behaving like a grumpy graybeard programmer ("kids these days should learn how to use concurrency instead of working on a new runtime altogether!" [0]).

But after using it for a production project I have to say I'm deeply satisfied and surprised by the maturity, quality of APIs and performance in general.

I was proven wrong and I'm happy about that :)

[0] Old man yell at clouds type of meme

> The classic example is division: in Python 2, 1 / 2 is 0; while in Python 3 it is 0.5.

Can someone kindly explain this?

edit: I misread it as “In Python 2 2.1/2 is 0, while in Python 3 it is 0.5”

It really speaks to how great the technical team can be. As crazy as it sounds Goldman Sacks and JP Morgan both maintained 2.7 Python as a core language until just a few years ago (yes, it's still used in production).

Eve Online used to be great.

Is there anything similarly great around now?

what did they do about stackless? are they using greenlet or did they switch to asyncio?

googled it so this becomes a PSA: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/25/eve-online-move-to-pyt...

so it's neither, it's their own: https://github.com/carbonengine/scheduler

so that's interesting

Shocking to me they are still on Python. Over like moving the high CPU parts over to rust or something.

Had to check the date.

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Seems to me like a migration that should have been done 15 years ago.

This feels suspiciously AI-authored

The proposed solution to 2.4M lines of python is.. more python, with the primary motivation being "performance" lol