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How long does it normally take to transition the community around a programming language to a new version that makes substantial changes?
by Kye 5y ago
How long does it normally take to transition the community around a programming language to a new version that makes substantial changes?
- dagw 5y agoRuby 1->2 and php 4->5 and 5->7 went a lot faster. On the other hand getting everybody from Fortran 90 to Fortran 2008 will probably take at least one more decade ;)
- magicalhippo 5y agoDepends on what you mean by substantial changes, but Delphi changed its string type from ANSI to Unicode some time ago, similar to what Python did. For the vast majority of users it was a very easy transition, due to the substantial work done by the Delphi team to make it so. For a lot of programs, a mere recompilation was required. We had a 300kLOC program + dependencies at that time, and one of us spent a 2-3 days on migrating, fixing small issues and testing.