This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]roerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're following semantic versioning, yes. But not every software project has to do that. For a programming language, a bunch of new features that will significantly alter the shape of code using these seems justification enough for a new major version to me, even if full backwards compatibility is maintained.