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by dudul 2555 days ago
Honestly I'm happy to see that they're gonna slow down a little bit. You need a certain stability for the language to become more attractive. Think that the book "Elixir 1.6" was only released a few months ago, and today we're already getting Elixir 1.9.

Yes, of course 99% of the book is probably still relevant and all, but I believe it is important to brand a language as having reached maturity and stability.
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josevalim 2555 days ago
By the metric above, which is release numbers, we won't slow down because we will continue with two releases per year (this is our frequency since v1.2/v1.3). :)

However, in terms of new features, we have already been slowing down over the last releases.

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brightball 2555 days ago
FWIW, the new books they are releasing for Elixir and Phoenix are both titled "Programming Phoenix >= 1.4" and "Programming Elixir >= 1.6"

That they are willing to put that in a primary book title is pretty bold.

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