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by diogofranco
3842 days ago
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One reason is that there are projects/situations where language stability can outweight the benefits of language evolution. While this isn't the coolest view out there, the fact the the ANSI standard didn't need to be revised since 2004 can actually be a feature, not a bug. For an extreme example of my point, look at the state of the front-end JavaScript frameworks in the last couple of years. |
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There's evolution and there's running in circles. :-p
Few languages really evolve fast in a meaningful sense. The only examples that come to my mind are Haskell, Racket and pre-1.0 Rust. And the first two are research languages. Breaking changes (e.g. Python 3) to get rid of accumulated cruft can be a good thing, but nevertheless stability is a feature.