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by SurgeArrest 1654 days ago
I thank Go team, that the major version was not increased. You can't imagine how much wider adoption of generics will be as compared if Go went to version 2.0 There are thousands of under-educated and overly-cautious software development managers who would prevent their teams from upgrading to a major version of Go until it is "proven". When it comes to developers there are two types who read changelogs and would know their tool well and take advantage of every small change in each minor version and then there are those who are there for the money, they will find out about a new feature only if manager instructs them to use it.
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> There are thousands of under-educated and overly-cautious software development managers who would prevent their teams from upgrading to a major version of Go until it is "proven".

If semantic versioning is used correctly, like here, that's actually a reasonable-ish attitude.