Yes this happens. But the point is that Rails and its community like to stay on the edge, if something deprecates you fix and it's done... the thought of framew

Yes this happens. But the point is that Rails and its community like to stay on the edge, if something deprecates you fix and it's done... the thought of framework developers trying too hard to be compatible with everyone's apps, people backporting language features to an older version so they don't have to switch and a popular framework dragging the evolution of a language is much more worrisome to a lot of developers I'm not entitled to talk about Django but that's my perception... There was a really funny comment in a thread like this back then that impersonated Rails saying "New Ruby version? let's deprecate everything!" and Django going "On the weekend we're gonna discuss making Django compatible with the 5 year old Python" And then someone said "What I like about this comment is that it pisses off both sides of the table" :p