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How come you havent noticed?! The number! 18! Come on, Ruby is on 2, Python struggles to get to 3 and Java tries to catch poorely with 8...

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Random numbers (18 vs Python's 3 or Java's 8) don't mean anything without comparing the release cycles and version numbering schemes as well.

I could make small incremental updates to a toy language and release them every week to get to FooBarLang 200.0.0, that doesn't mean it's progressing faster than a language at release 2 or 10.

That's the joke.

Maybe add the /s then?

It's amazing how many people actually confuse version numbers this way, including on HN (check any discussion about semver).

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