Roman Elizarov
1 min readJun 26, 2019

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Backwards compatibility is indeed it is very important for wide acceptance, though I don’t see the its relations to “new and all-flashy” — both old and modern languages come everywhere across the spectrum of backwards compatibility — what the ones that care a lot about compatibility like Kotlin to the ones that utterly break things on every release.

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Roman Elizarov
Roman Elizarov

Written by Roman Elizarov

Project Lead for the Kotlin Programming Language @JetBrains

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