Where are we now and where we are going to?

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

At the time of writing, almost ten years have passed since the first Python 3 release. It is also seven 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 is developing very fast, there is a large group of its users that do not want to move forward with it.