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Please consider the time it takes for a new language to be fully developed and to take hold. These major revisions are simply new languages, because they _break
by nercury 11y ago
Please consider the time it takes for a new language to be fully developed and to take hold. These major revisions are simply new languages, because they _break backward compatibility_.
Except, um... PHP.
- mathgenius 11y agoYes, and in the mean time: Go, Rust, Dart, Julia... maybe someone someday will get the sweet spot of performant code that is just plain fun to write. I guess that was the idea with PyPy, but after 15 (?) years that goal is still a ways away.