> I don't know if HN can find any counter-examples, of a language that thrived through an incompatible, code-breaking upgrade. Swift breaks every major version

> I don't know if HN can find any counter-examples, of a language that thrived through an incompatible, code-breaking upgrade. Swift breaks every major version at least but not as often and on a large scale anymore with point releases as with 1.x and 2.x. Has been like that from the beginning and everybody that writes it accepted it.