Actually, I think it's fine for languages: Backwards-Incompatible change? Increment Major version Many new features, but (largely) backwards compatible? Incre

Actually, I think it's fine for languages: Backwards-Incompatible change? Increment Major version Many new features, but (largely) backwards compatible? Increment Minor version. Bugfixes? Increment Patch. I think this also perfectly maps to Semantic Versioning (http://semver.org/ http://semver.org/)