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serge2k on March 24, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nes emulator written in go

So instead we end up with libraries on 1.0 for years because you can't break by upgrading.

kibwen on March 24, 2015 [–]

I cannot express how amused I am at the silliness of this whole conversation, which is predicated on the absurd premise that users won't want to upgrade their versions of the compiler. What part of the phrase "backwards compatible" is lost on this crowd?

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