Older languages like C/C++, Java, Javascript and Perl5, regardless of their versioning schemes, have been mostly stable for decades. There were minor breaking changes from time to time but the language cores are largely compatible backwardly. Newer languages like Go is on a similar path. This is what we need for a programming language.
How long will Julia keep its backward compatibility? Based on the history, I suspect that in five years, Julia will release v2.0 and break a lot of user code again. Hope I am wrong here.
How long will Julia keep its backward compatibility? Based on the history, I suspect that in five years, Julia will release v2.0 and break a lot of user code again. Hope I am wrong here.