Where are we now and where we are going?

Python history starts somewhere in the late 1980s, but its 1.0 release date was in the year 1994, so it is not a very young language. There could be a whole timeline of major Python releases mentioned here, but what really matters is a single date: December 3, 2008 – the release date of Python 3.0.

At the time of writing, seven years have passed since the first Python 3 release. It is also four years since the creation of PEP 404—the official document that "un-released" Python 2.8 and officially closed the 2.x branch. Although a lot of time has passed, there is a specific dichotomy in the Python community—while the language develops very fast, there is a large group of its users that do not want to move forward with it.