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I had (somewhat hyperbolically) Asia and Latin America in mind but this being HN I eagerly await someone pointing out the existence of Belize or some parts of India and Singapore in a valiant effort to be technically correct.

The same is true for French, or Mandarin Chinese. Still, good luck getting by in English in the middle of China, Russia, West Africa or Latin America. Hell, rural Germany can be rough going.

Python 2 isn't dead. What they really mean is: "See all those countless developer-hours spent into adding features, fixing bugs, patching vulnerabilities for free in a language you use every day to make boatloads of money without us ever asking anything in return? Well we won't do it anymore. For free, at least."

English is far from the international language. There are billions of people and entire continents where no one speaks English.

Unless you meant the de facto language for business and research, or the language spoken in the areas I care about, which is different from the international language.

That rant is more than a decade old and not as relevant as people like to tout. There are issues with esperanto but most of what is lamented there is really subjective.