> I appreciate how the maintainers value backwards-compatibility (nothing ever breaks, it only gets better), that they are strongly committed to making the lang

> I appreciate how the maintainers value backwards-compatibility (nothing ever breaks, it only gets better), that they are strongly committed to making the language great in the long run, and are unmoved from the language's founding values. This shows even in the half-life of the Clojure repo: https://m.imgur.com/a/rH8DC https://m.imgur.com/a/rH8DC That image is 5 years old now, I saw it in the 2016 discussion linked below, but the trajectory is clear especially when compared to the other popular repos analyzed in the post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13112449 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13112449