Final by default?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 00:18:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

> The saying goes, "you can't make a bucket of yogurt without a 
> spoonful of rennet". The pattern of resetting customer code 
> into the next version must end. It's the one thing that both 
> current and future users want: a pattern of stability and 
> reliability.

One thing we can do is to have a better version scheme. Currently 
(breaking) language changes, (breaking) library changes and bug 
fixes all occur in the same release. There's no way to tell on 
the version number if a specific release was only a bug fix 
release (if we would do that).

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/Jacob Carlborg