johncoene 10 months ago

First, how is that "giving myself an excuse"? Second, it's a total non sequitur, and even then, it's a day old has it broken?

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  • brudgers 10 months ago

    the syntax might change, things will break, expect bugs.

    Bugs are normal software development.

    Changing syntax and breaking things make work for everyone else for the convenience of developers. Reliability is what makes a tool a tool.

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    • Terretta 10 months ago

      > Changing syntax and breaking things make work

      How else might one explore a new language (vapour) in the open among interested like-minded developers seeking to iterate on a tool found lacking (R)?

      Changing and iterating things makes.

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      • ausbah 10 months ago

        they aren’t wrong. backwards compatibility is a suppose to one of the first promises any mature programming languages. unless you make it explicit via noting breaking changes in major version updates (1.X.X —> 2.X.X) or the language is purely for R&D and makes no guarantee of anything

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        • maleldil 10 months ago

          The website says, "EARLY ALPHA Vapour is extremely young, the syntax might change, things will break, expect bugs."

          What part of this is giving any sense of stability? It's clearly an experimental language, so I find it hard to understand why you are discussing stability and compatibility at all.

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maleldil 10 months ago

I have no skin in this game, but why are you expecting maturity from a new language? They're not claiming to be production-ready – quite the opposite. It's on version 0.0.5, for goodness' sake.

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