> Yup, that's absolutely it. I'm not sure of a good, succinct way to imply the former rather than the later...
Personally, a sentence saying something to that effect (i.e. showing that it's understood that it doesn't immediately hello just yet) would be sufficient. It would probably get tiring every time nightlies are mentioned, though, but it means people (like me) who randomly land on a thread would know that the problems are acknowledged.
> We do releases every six weeks, so while it is in some sense, it's also just going to be higher than other languages.
Right, but the problem is that the rest of the world has expectations on those numbers (e.g. x.0 is probably buggy, >0.x is a thing external people are expected to be able to use). The particular minor version number doesn't matter as much. That ship has sailed (and probably circumnavigated the world a few times) though.
The biggest problem is probably that I'm comparing it to golang, which was the last 1.x language I learned, and that had a more complete standard library by 1.0. Again, likely the effect of the much more open development model (no baking behind closed doors).
Personally, a sentence saying something to that effect (i.e. showing that it's understood that it doesn't immediately hello just yet) would be sufficient. It would probably get tiring every time nightlies are mentioned, though, but it means people (like me) who randomly land on a thread would know that the problems are acknowledged.
> We do releases every six weeks, so while it is in some sense, it's also just going to be higher than other languages.
Right, but the problem is that the rest of the world has expectations on those numbers (e.g. x.0 is probably buggy, >0.x is a thing external people are expected to be able to use). The particular minor version number doesn't matter as much. That ship has sailed (and probably circumnavigated the world a few times) though.
The biggest problem is probably that I'm comparing it to golang, which was the last 1.x language I learned, and that had a more complete standard library by 1.0. Again, likely the effect of the much more open development model (no baking behind closed doors).