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by superkuh 212 days ago
And this is why very long support windows are great. All the corporate persons and the bleeding edge devs can improve off into the sunset while a stable base for non-dev culture human people who want to get things done and have them keep being done rather than requiring remakes every $timeperiod (~3 months for rustc, ~10 years for c++xx culture target changes, etc) exists.