This discussion has come up several times in the last month about where we should focus our efforts as a development team.

One [option](github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/issues/640) is to upgrade to Python 3.

A second option is to write the solution and focus on the Next Gen (NG) [project](github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector-ng).

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The purpose of this issue is to get the entire Charcoal community to discuss the differences between the two options outside of chat, so that we can all see the and respond. The timings of the discussions have excluded different aspects …

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/Users/ashish/concaten/stl/globals.c:90:43: error: unsequenced modification and access
      to 'pseudo_index' [-Werror,-Wunsequenced]
                tkn(">string", TKN_WORD), tkn("puts", TKN_WORD));
                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  ^
/Users/ashish/concaten/stl/globals.c:69:27: note: expanded from macro 'tkn'
    .index = pseudo_index += strlen(str_form) + 1, \
                          ^
/Users/ashish/concaten/stl/globals.c:73:34: note: expanded from macro 'try_add_ctn'
    struct Token id##_tkns[] = { __VA_ARGS__ }; \