Thread: Calibre on iOS
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Old 06-28-2020, 05:52 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Because the current non-beta Calibre uses Python 2.
I would suspect that if Kovid Goyal or another developer wanted to port calibre to iOS or Android or ChromeOS or whatever other OS, they would probably want to use Python3. I seem to remember in 2014, Python3 was supposed to start replacing Python2 and Python2 went EOL on 2020-Jan-01 so continuing to use it would make no sense.

Admittedly, one client of mine has a backend program that was written in Fortran. As explained, it has one task, it does it well and the cost of replacing it makes it a low priority.
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