Amen!

Ruby managed the transition to unicode much better as they delivered 2x performance increase at the same time AND labeled the new version 1.9 instead of two. Much the same problem.

Yes python 2 is OK but it's legacy mode and people will move on. I think one of the selling points of python vs ruby is that its so often OK to just use system python(2) versus ruby where you really need to use something like rbenv. Selling point for ruby is that the community is absolutely obsessed with making good tools to facilitate working with it.

I have already in my mind decided the future is in languages that are designed with parallelism in mind. Another breaking change for that?