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I have enormous respect for Knuth and his versioning joke is cute, but effectively it just means development and feature additions happen in forks or new projec
by boublepop 7y ago
I have enormous respect for Knuth and his versioning joke is cute, but effectively it just means development and feature additions happen in forks or new projects, such as LaTeX and the many others.
- smitty1e 7y agoOr maybe there is wisdom in thinking of applications more along the lines of protocol stacks. A TeX layer implements mechanism, a LaTeX layer does the policy, and an Overleaf handles the UI chores. (I'm a Spacemacs/org-mode/texlive user, personally.)
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoIn some ways that isn’t a bad idea. I was looking at the plans for Express the other day and it struck me they would be better freezing features and encouraging people who wanted async to look at something like Koa. As it is they will probably end up with the worst of both worlds.