| Let me talk about my experience.
I was (yes was) mostly an Haskeller. I loved using Haskell, and even a long time ago (in 2007 I think) when I learned it, the book to learn the basic of the language had snipped that no longer worked. But I still loved, it. And it changed every year, and I was even part of the proponent of the changes. But after a while, you realise that your old project stop working.
That if you want to use a new library, you also need to update many dependencies. But each one has breaking changes, so you start updating your code. Mainly, if you wrote some code, and forget about it, it will no longer work or will be very hard to use with newer libraries. After a while this became very tedious. In Clojure, the code I wrote 10 years ago is still working perfectly today.
The application still launches. If a bug is discovered and I need to fix it, for example, by upgrading or adding a new lib, I am not afraid to loose hours finding an fixing my existing code that suddenly become deprecated. So yes, stability is VERY important for me now. And last but not least, Rich Hickey talked about it in this talk and make a lot of very great points: https://piped.video/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk |