My point was that even if the language is superior (maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. I'm not really qualified to debate the point) if the /platform/ is immatu

My point was that even if the language is superior (maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. I'm not really qualified to debate the point) if the /platform/ is immature, that is still quite a disadvantage. Me, I'm not complaining about the large, predictable breakage you get when changing major versions, but the breakage that you got with minor versions of perl5 10 years ago, that you get with minor versions of python 2 today.