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Programming language evolution: with all that, we are still flying

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Final part of adventures in understanding, explaining, and challenging the facts that should be obvious. (Part 1 → Part 2 → Part 3)

Final part of adventures in understanding, explaining, and challenging the facts that should be obvious. ( Part 1 → Part 2 → Part 3 ) This article is written for my Substack , you can subscribe to it by email now! In the previous two parts, I described how working on Ruby’s changelog made me imagine I understand language’s logic and intentions behind it. Then, that fantasy brought me to participate more insistently in language development. And then, that participation made me suffer when several aspects of Ruby 2.7 evolution hasn’t developed the way I expected—and in one case, an important fea

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