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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2020 16:21:07 EDT lnxw48a1
   https://reasonml.chat/t/bucklescript-8-1-new-syntax-option/2379
   
   Controversial update to #BucketScript riles the #Ocaml / #ReasonML community
   
   I was just thinking (thanks to an #IRC discussion this morning) about breaking changes in programming languages and how often they split the community (or get rolled back, sometimes before an official release). Examples: #Perl 6 (now called #Raku) was originally a replacement for Perl 5, but became its own separate language (and I’m hearing that Perl 7 is facing rough sailing with the language’s community, too); #PHP 6, with radical changes that were scaled way down (PHP 6 was skipped, but later parts of the 5.x series and the 7.x series implemented some of the proposed changes). Then I come across this.
   1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2020 16:48:43 EDT GeniusMusing

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      @lnxw48a1 Reminds me of when dot net was introduced except that VB6 is still in use in places.