Thoughts on versioning

Ola Fosheim Grøstad ola.fosheim.grostad at gmail.con
Tue Oct 26 07:24:22 UTC 2021


On Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 01:19:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Versioning Phobos would free us from maintaining backward 
> compatibility with a variety of decisions that did not 
> withstand the test of time:

I think language and std lib should follow the same versioning 
scheme with the same attitude to breaking changes. Nobody wants 
to use the older outdated std lib.

Basically, if you are willing to break the std lib, then you also 
should be willing to have breaking changes at the language level.



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