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by ben_jones 3677 days ago
There's something to be said about "small" languages. Whenever Golang does a point release I update all my production code without a fear in the world, not because I have to, but because their may be a performance improvement here or there that I get for "free". I think I skipped 1.5 and 1.5.1 because of a slight regression when they switched to a go-based compiler/runtime but other then that yeah, awesome.

Conversely I'm always behind on Node as it's realllly annoying when a third-party lib breaks from an update. Larger packages will be fine but when you're dealing with say a Meteor package derived from an NPM package it's pretty shitty.