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What's the benchmark for how long something can be pre-1.0? Seems like a nonsense argument.
by HumanOstrich 1y ago
What's the benchmark for how long something can be pre-1.0? Seems like a nonsense argument.
- yxhuvud 1y agoSomething can be pre-1.0 as long as there are no stability guarantees.
- pharrington 1y agoThere is no benchmark. As a species, we don't even know know what a good programming language is, let alone how to reliably develop one. This stuff takes time, and we're all learning it together. I like to compare this to real world cathedral building. There are some cathedrals that are literally taking centuries to build! It's OK if the important, but difficult thing takes a long time to build.
- Dylan16807 1y agoCathedrals are the opposite of extreme beta mode with lots of breaking changes.
- pharrington 1y agoYes. I guess what I meant is that cathedrals are a complex system that we know how to do, and still they take ages to build properly.
- Dylan16807 1y agoIt's the combination of pre-1.0 and having rapid development speed that is being questioned here. And it's a good question, not nonsense. If you keep up the development pace you're going to approach stability. Unless you're in a manic spiral of rewrites.
- throwawaymaths 1y agohttps://github.com/ziglang/zig/milestone/2 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/milestone/2