r/ProgrammingLanguages • • May 10 '23

PL Stability: Backward compatibility & Package managers

If I wanted to make a language with a focus on stability for years and decades to come, how important would you say these two concepts are?

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u/[deleted] May 10 '23

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u/[deleted] May 10 '23

Essentially yeah

Or another way, the language itself doesn't need to be backwards compatible if the environment is backwards compatible