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The only language I've experienced so much churn with is Swift (which loves to break things, vs. the relative stability of Objective-C.) But Apple has already o
by musicale 4y ago
The only language I've experienced so much churn with is Swift (which loves to break things, vs. the relative stability of Objective-C.) But Apple has already outsourced yearly iOS compatibility updates onto every developer, and now they have even decided to remove apps that haven't been updated recently from the app store. A stable game/app development platform it is not.
I am still shocked though by the Python project deciding to break billions of lines of legacy code. What other platforms demonstrate that kind of contempt for their developers?
Removing the print statement seems like a particularly negative trade-off: breaking code in the name of syntactic purity, instead of simply deprecating the print statement and letting it live on compatibly with the print() function.
Since then a bunch of new syntax (not all of which is bad) has of course been added.
It's also weird that until now they seem to have largely ignored performance and focused on adding random new features.