On: Go automatically downloads a newer toolchain if ne...

[IshKebab]

That's still among the strongest backwards compatibility guarantees in any major language. Maybe Java would be close? It's certainly better than C++ which is famed for backwards compatibility, and light years ahead of Python.

[tapirl → IshKebab]

> That's still among the strongest backwards compatibility guarantees in any major language.

Not at all. See https://go101.org/blog/2024-03-01-for-loop-semantic-changes-... for reasons.

[IshKebab → tapirl]

What reasons? You need to pass one flag to the compiler to specify the language version? That's still very very good.

Please tell me what flag I can pass to Python 3.12 so `distutils` still exists.

[tapirl → IshKebab]

Reasons are in the article.

I'm not familiar with Python, so I don't understand what is the problem with Python. But I think the problem of Go is unrelated to Python.

[pjmlp → IshKebab]

Yet it isn't without zero issues, as claimed.