Re: Development Speed

[Tim Cross]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." [2021-12-23 14:48:32] 
> wrote:
>> Dec 23, 2021, 16:42 by luangruo@yahoo.com:
>>> No.  If that happens in GCC, then it is a bug.
>> Yes, that's the point.  It is a lot more likely to happen as
>> the focus is on new standard.
>
> That's not my experience.  It's rather than other way around: features
> of the new standard are more likely to have bugs because they've not
> been tested for as many years.
>

Yes, that would mirror my experience as well.

There is also the issue that new standards don't always mean better -
only newer. The software industry is littered with examples where a new
standard has turned out to be a step backwards rather than forward.