Backwards Compatibility Debate
The cluster centers on debates about the value, burdens, and trade-offs of maintaining backwards compatibility in programming languages, libraries, and software tools. Commenters discuss whether breaking it enables improvements or risks stability and user adoption.
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If you could break backwards compatibility, what would you change?
backwards compatibility is a burden, not a feature.
By breaking backward compatibility. Not forward.
Right, why break compatibility when you don't have to?
Why would we break backwards compatibility, when it works just fine?
Because that would break backwards compatibility.
That's what happens when you break backwards compatibility.
As long as it's backwards compatible, why should that be a problem?
Having backwards compatibility is their defining feature and selling point, so no way ant of that will happen
Are you proposing to break backward compatibility?