Some of the discussions on this thread remind me why I'm pleased I don't work on code for browsers. I've been writing native (or python) stuff for a long while

Some of the discussions on this thread remind me why I'm pleased I don't work on code for browsers. I've been writing native (or python) stuff for a long while, and I've come to rely on the assumptions the code makes being roughly constant (from the point of view of the language definition.) My brain recoils at the idea of targeting a large number of different systems at once, like browsers and their versions, and then have the same code run on the huge set of future versions... If your code behaves differently under a new GCC, it indicates a bug in your code. If your javascript behaves differently in the latest Chrome, that's just life.