Languages cannot get better, only bigger, without dropping backwards compatibility. Completely agree. Dropping backwards compatibility, if you have serious use

Languages cannot get better, only bigger, without dropping backwards compatibility. Completely agree. Dropping backwards compatibility, if you have serious users, really isn't an option either. Just look at Python 2/3. You can deprecate stuff and very very very very slowly remove it, but it really is a slow process if you want to keep your existing users happy.