alt Hacker NewsI suppose the word "support" has many meanings in software. When I say I wish more developers would keep support for old platforms, I don't mean "provide human technical support" to users on old platforms, or even "continue building features" for those old platforms. Just wish they wouldn't deliberately break them.
EOL doesn't mean the software vanishes from the face of the earth, although we seem to be quickly moving to a world where once the OS vendor EOLs a platform, developers take that as a signal to break everyone on that platform.
I know, open source = I'm not entitled to anything, which is why I say "wish" instead of "demand."
- Sad owner of an iPhone 7
> Just wish they wouldn't deliberately break them.
I don't think anyone™ goes out of their way to explicitly break things for old Python versions.
It's usually more like "oh cool I can make this code faster/more readable if I use this feature. I don't have to care about the old version anymore so I will do that."
If you really to super duper need a backport, you're in luck: python is an interpreted language whose source is in plaintext, on your local machine.