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I don’t disagree with you, but I also don’t think that’s a bad thing. Things certainly don’t break quickly, there are years of warnings for deprecated functionality. I also think it’s not a bad thing to drop old functionality. It may not be warranted that code that worked 10/20 years ago should still work today. Languages evolve, and by pruning old features, footguns, or bad patterns, the language can evolve without carrying the weight of every mistake or legacy feature.


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