I've written about this before, but this guy definitely wrote it better. I experience a very close relation between this and Ruby vs C#(Mono). I love Ruby as a

I've written about this before, but this guy definitely wrote it better. I experience a very close relation between this and Ruby vs C#(Mono). I love Ruby as a language, but the pain of using Rubygems and random things requiring Ruby <1.9 and <1.8 (And setting up rvm to manage that) is an absolute pain. Python is slightly better, but I still have a python2 and python3 installed. This is why I love mono. Things may not be backwards compatible, but I've never had a problem where something wasn't forwards compatible. And I think this is a result of it being compiled. The compilation step decouples the language and syntax from the actual execution of the code. This means that compiled applications can have drastic and breaking syntax improvements, but still be forward compatible on future runtimes. The same can not be said of interpreted languages unless you somehow work a version number into the execution, and even then it makes implementation of the languages much harder because future versions must support every version of the syntax