>A Codebase Older Than Some of You
>EVE launched in 2003, built on Stackless Python, a version of Python whose lightweight "tasklets" let a single server node juggle thousands of pilots at once
>Some of you may remember upgrading to Stackless Python 2.5 in 2007, then to Stackless Python 2.7 in 2010.
>That was the last time EVE changed its Python version.
>The short version:
>staying on Python 2 increasingly holds EVE back, and moving to Python 3 means a healthier, better-supported game for you.
>One reason is performance.
>Recent Python 3 releases have delivered some of the largest speedups in the history of this language.
>Over time, that opens the door to a faster EVE, though it is too early to say exactly what that will mean.
>Another reason is the ecosystem.
>Modern libraries, debuggers, and profilers are all built for Python 3.
>Every year we remain on Python 2, more of them slip out of reach, and the more we must maintain ourselves instead of improving the game.
>Better tools mean we can find and fix problems faster.
<https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins