alt Hacker NewsWho in their right mind would immediately migrate their production apps into a complete re-write of a runtime?
It would be naive to think there aren't new bugs or changes in behavior introduced in 1.4.
Who in their right mind would immediately migrate their production apps into a complete re-write of a runtime?
It would be naive to think there aren't new bugs or changes in behavior introduced in 1.4.
(Well, the answer is "Anthropic, with claude code", but I'm not in possession of material information related to whether they are or are not in their right minds.)
But yes, of course there will be new bugs. But that's why 1.4.x for x > 0 is interesting. If the branch is being used and people are not reporting _more_ bugs, and the bugs you care about it are being fixed (successfully) on it, and it passes your tests, etc., ... I dunno. This is an application domain where you can do some pretty solid testing of it, comparative fuzzing, etc., so it doesn't strike me as entirely mad to jump over after a few minor releases where you can see the bug trajectory.