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[Walter Bright]

On 5/20/2020 8:42 AM, bachmeier wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 at 14:14:05 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> 
>> Programming languages evolve or die. During early stage evolution there is 
>> always experimentation. This seems fine – as long as the experiments do not go 
>> into a release prior to completion.
> 
> The best example of this is Java. It's evolved a lot over the years, in spite of 
> being extremely heavily used and being an enterprise programming language. The 
> Rust leadership would do well to keep in mind that evolution is not optional. 
> Especially for a language that has a tiny fraction of the popularity of Java (in 
> spite of the front page of Hacker News).

Languages that are used over long periods of time evolve greatly after 1.0. 
Fortran, Basic, C++, Java, Perl, Pascal, Python, C#, D, etc. C is a notable 
exception.