Thoughts about Spec-ulation (Rich Hickey)
Rich Hickey recently gave a keynote at Clojure/conj 2016, meditating on the problems of versioning, specification and backwards compatibility in language ecosystems. In it, Rich considers the "extremist" view, what if we built a language ecosystem, where you never, ever broke backwards compatibility. A large portion of the talk is spent grappling with the ramifications […]