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I think its a bit different with a language though. Because so much of other people's work is based on it, removing a feature that was being used causes all sor

I think its a bit different with a language though. Because so much of other people's work is based on it, removing a feature that was being used causes all sorts of downstream chaos. Every time a language release breaks backwards compatibility it tends to really upset people, I think maintainers always need to be cognizent that their choices effect others.

geocar 7y ago
They are. They might lose some users this way. They would definitely lose some users the other way though. I suppose it must seem pretty strange to see a programming language built on a set of technical values, instead of trying to find the subset of most-popular values (because their real goal is popularity).