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Windows 93 (2014) 10 years ago

To be fair, though, this webapp emulates the look & feel of Windows 95 (or greater), which was released in August 1995. Windows 3.1(1) (and NT 3.1 as of July 1993) were the current versions of Windows in 1993; each had far less polished effects: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x for screenshot. :)

Decent read - it further helped me appreciate the position from which Python 2 devs require certain non-trivial, non-ported libs are coming.

That said, as a mostly Python 3 developer, PEP 404, to which he links, provides much insight and justification for ending at 2.7. In brief, the changes all seem to me to be efforts to make Python more 'Pythonic' (i.e. TOOWTDI).

PEP 404 2 -> 3 reasoning: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0404/#and-now-for-some...

TOOWTDI: https://wiki.python.org/moin/TOOWTDI

You need a templating + biz logic language, and a database. The usual starters for non-purists are PHP and MySQL. Also, most front-ends use JavaScript these days, often with a helper JavaScript library like JQuery.

Myself, I'm more of a Python (language) + PostgreSQL (database) person, but they may take a little longer to get up to speed with.