>Nobody wants to update their browser this frequently
hi, I run nightly and get prompts that my browser has updated daily. I simply ignore them, and it'll be patched by the time I start up firefox the next time, because it updates in the background. And so does regular firefox.
You don't see Chrome updating, and yet they're pushing out more releases than firefox ever did.
>hundreds of thousands of working programmers around the world are productively using Go
Source needed. Even the Go surveys only have mere thousands of respondants. Just because you're stuck in a Go bubble does not mean the world outside is the same.
> still continuing to ignore the supposedly superior solutions.
Go was literally made because Google said their junior employees are not able to understand more powerful languages. Go is a dumbed down language so that their armies of developers can be efficient code monkeys.
Thousands of people are using excel macros and being very productive. That doesn't mean it's a good language either.
Congratulations, you are part of the problem :)
This type of answer is on par with "The earth won't die, only humans, the earth will be fine!". That's great, but we're kinda focusing on humans, and being pedantic will not help the situation.
1/ Temperatures raising by 5 degrees in europe, or midwest US will mean droughts, because many of the plants we cultivate will not have the time to adapt and will plain die.
2/ The "alarmist" rethoric has been held back every time, because people like you would say that scientists are exaggerating. Exxon predictions from the 70s are being confirmed. Every single study that you read in journals for the past ten years about climate change only shows the lowest bound, because people cannot handle urgency. And every single time, without fail, it reaches the higher bound or worse.
3/ People won't adapt because people will _die_. We're not talking small deaths. We're talking tens of thousands because of heat waves, millions due to famine. When half of Africa is going to be knocking at Europe's doorstep because their countries are becoming inhabitable, do you think everything will be smooth?
4/ Bringing more people out of poverty has been the main reason why we're in such a crazy state of things. Yes, China has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, and I'm glad. But at what cost?
5/ So, your solution is to say fuck it, it's gonna change, keep driving SUVs and make Earth a living hell, we're gonna adapt anyways.
People will _die_ from such ways of thinking. Hope your conscience won't be too bothered.
However, if you had code that expected to receive a `hobby` field in V1, that tries to parse it and you removed it in V3, then yes, obviously, it breaks existing code. That is basic API design
This kinda defeats the whole "environmentally conscious" point.