That's what I've been afraid of. When epochs were announced, I thought it is kinda nice to have backwards compatibility while introducing breaking changes. It's a good technical concept. Trying to change it's role into "marketing/communication/project management tool" out of a sudden is what puzzles me.
> It's worth comparing this to the recent Firefox Quantum release
I don't think it's a fare comparison. Firefox Quantum doesn't involve much of breaking changes (if you don't consider deprecating the old plugins one, that is). And the changes are most drastic since early versions of FF. With Rust though, it's clearly improving every day, I don't see Q3 2018 as any sort of "quantum leap". At least for as long as it doesn't include the const generics :)
> It's worth comparing this to the recent Firefox Quantum release
I don't think it's a fare comparison. Firefox Quantum doesn't involve much of breaking changes (if you don't consider deprecating the old plugins one, that is). And the changes are most drastic since early versions of FF. With Rust though, it's clearly improving every day, I don't see Q3 2018 as any sort of "quantum leap". At least for as long as it doesn't include the const generics :)