Re:Python adopts a 12-month release cycle
by thewhitetulip on Saturday November 02, 2019 @02:22AM
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I understand improvement, all right. I am not against that. What I feel is wrong here is that we get new features every year. A language should be a minimum set of features that everyone uses and not 'all features everyone would ever need'
and long term stability and backward compatibility is a must for a language which is as famous as Python
Worth mentioning Kotlin, Scala and Clojure also improved and changed _a lot_ in recent years and so did Go and Rust and other "new" languages that aren't 30 :]
Nothing would make me happier than to see JavaScript and C++ abandoned (two of the most popular programming languages and the two I use the most except Python probably). However that would require a lot of work to accomplish and such huge undertaking is usually done a lot more incrementally. Doing it in a "big bang" fashion would be quite a lot of work.
That is, JavaScript and C++ are very different than they were 10 or 20 years ago - not just in terms of tooling but also in terms of the language itself.