> A long release cycle has meant I don't have to update any of my existing Elm code. That's a WIN to me! :)
Instead you'll get a very big batch of breaking changes, that means the community will properly take a very long time to migrate to 0.19. Long release cycles are NOT a good thing.
Python 3 is the canonical example, but there are plenty of other times where too big a release brings about splits in communities.
You'll get a small batch of breaking changes, most of them will be automatically fixed by the elm-upgrade tool. The community will probably migrate to 0.19 faster than 0.18 or 0.17, which both had much more breaking changes than 0.19.
Fair point. I think the Elm devs knew that, so they created https://github.com/avh4/elm-upgrade for the 0.17 to 0.18 upgrade. It's fixes _almost_ everything.
Instead you'll get a very big batch of breaking changes, that means the community will properly take a very long time to migrate to 0.19. Long release cycles are NOT a good thing.
Python 3 is the canonical example, but there are plenty of other times where too big a release brings about splits in communities.