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One of the newer (newer than C, C++, Common Lisp, ...) languages I feel comfortable about regarding this is Go. Definitely feels like I can write a simple Go program to generate a static website for example and it'll probably still work in that same state for a while.

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It’s hard to say with any 1.x versions what’ll happen come 2.x

True, but... most languages wouldn't be on version 1.x after the amount of time (and progress) that Go has. Go has a track record by now, of being very careful about breaking things, and providing tools to help fix them when they do.

Sure, Go could introduce breaking changes in 2.x. Will they? Track record says "no".

As far as I can tell, the only reason for a Go 2 (as opposed to a Go 1.nnnn) is "we introduced a breaking change". Things that were considered "Go 2" are being worked in, as the language evolves, without the need to break previously written code.

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