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> but version numbers do not make for mature libraries

No but they do symbolise a belief amongst the library maintainers that it isn't stable. And so I end up spending an inordinate amount of time refactoring for the latest version.

> and the same thing will happen to Rust in 10 years

From what I've seen in the last year it won't. Most of the libraries I use have stopped being maintained. The reason Java does so well here is because in enterprise space supporting something for decades is common.