Breaking backwards compat isn’t actually such a big deal in certain cloud applications, or for e.g. Java or Go. When you have full control of the stack, a lot o

Breaking backwards compat isn’t actually such a big deal in certain cloud applications, or for e.g. Java or Go. When you have full control of the stack, a lot of interesting possibilities open up. The main issue is probably that removing old crap isn’t going to save that much die area.