> This is demonstrably false. Hardware changes, operating system interfaces change. If you don't keep up with these changes, eventually your language becomes ir

> This is demonstrably false. Hardware changes, operating system interfaces change. If you don't keep up with these changes, eventually your language becomes irrelevant. To further illustrate this point: today, versions of Python 3.7 and older cannot be built from source on modern Linux with current GCC. Python's dependencies on libffi and libssl are incompatible with their current interfaces, and so the language can only be built with older libraries (but then the operating system needs to use the older ones too) or statically linked with those libraries, but in case of libffi that doesn't help because it will not work for its intended goal. And the further back you go, the less likely it is that you will be able to build and use any version of Python. Bet, the same is true for Go. If Python 3.8+ didn't exist, how difficult would it be to update cypthon to target newer GCC? Correct me if I'm wrong, but my sense is this would be a relatively minor maintenance task. I suspect no one has updated Python 3.7 because there is no need (and because the Python foundation would prefer to nudge everyone to update anyway).