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by fsloth 1184 days ago
"There's going to be a lot of superstition and cargo cults." I'm willing to hedge my bets that an immutable functional language has a much higher tendency to remain legible than something else. But it will be a very interesting experiment in the history of computer languages IMO.
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I also felt Tim was tempting fate when he said "You can import directly from a self published URL. Of course it's the responsibility of the publisher to never change the semantics of that code in an incompatible way."

I just can't imagine that working at scale. I bet they add semantic versioning support pretty quickly.