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What's stopping them from going to version 3.999 ? Are semver numbers limited to 99?

• axiosgunnar 5y ago
  Probably tooling/CI/dependency management that would have to be changed a little, which might break backwards compatability. Basically it‘s a hardcoded regex with two digits everywhere, I assume.
  • uranusjr 5y ago
    I think it’s just Guido’s Dutch humour not getting across. The toolchain was already recently upgraded to support 3.10, and IIUC can handle 3.999 fine.
  • delaaxe 5y ago
    I’ve seen a lot of versions like 2021.76.1473382 so I doubt it
• Cthulhu_ 5y ago
  There's nothing stopping them from going to version 4, it's just a number, but some people and organizations get really worried about major version changes in some languages. I like how Go's approaching it, there probably will be a Go 2 but it'll be a smooth transition. I've been keeping my version of Go updated for a while now and never had to change anything.
  • Siira 5y ago
    Go modules did break my Go scripts after updating.
• maest 5y ago
  They'll go all the way up to 3.(9), which, of course, is different from 4.0