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My Contribution to the Left-Pad Incident with Simon Lydell

Software Unscripted

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The Importance of Compatibility in Languages

Languages accumulate what people often were referred to as warts. If you do insist on breaking people's code in order to keep the word out of the language, then a lot of people are going to be understandably upset about that and feel burned by that. I wish it was more common for languages or frameworks and so on to have like incremental upgrades strategies,. That's something we're definitely interested in.

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