Post AF8ORUVNheDgM0B00O by davidhanzlik@mastodon.online
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 (DIR) Post #AF8EhTvmbenXfHVnQu by alice@bidule.menf.in
       2022-01-05T13:46:41.226707Z
       
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       Why do I keep stumblingon functions that have just been added to the library I'm using and aren't available in my current installed version ?
       
 (DIR) Post #AF8Hk1sne2PBPG1TlI by davidhanzlik@mastodon.online
       2022-01-05T14:12:59Z
       
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       @alice are you using Debian? I affectionately call it Ubuntu LongLTS in my head X)But I guess the real world answer is that programmers are building the plane as it flies. On https://developer.Mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API you'll see a ton of web APIs with the experimental flag. Browsers and spec writers are putting functionality out in the wild to test their implementations (or see if any programmer wants them). It is equivalent to alpha/beta testing in the games industry.
       
 (DIR) Post #AF8Hk2LVvHNEqJSPWC by alice@bidule.menf.in
       2022-01-05T14:20:43.698512Z
       
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       @davidhanzlik Not even on Debian : ) Nope, just the bad luck of wanting stuff that’s really just been added. Latest case in date was elem from the text Haskell package. My system is a bit late on updates, 2~3 months, so maybe the change made it to my distro since but it’s really not a big deal, just bad luck : )
       
 (DIR) Post #AF8Hk3YfPrUObOcQeu by davidhanzlik@mastodon.online
       2022-01-05T14:17:47Z
       
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       @alice One difference is, in the games industry most customers can have the most up to date version of a game (without fear of breaking other games). OS's tend to incorporate updates at a much slower rate to make sure security isn't compromised (or that none of their favorite apps start to crash).Debian's Firefox is well know for being a couple versions behind mainstream (so the libraries used may be older than you'd expect). Maybe yours is a similar prob
       
 (DIR) Post #AF8HtZFEyWW9U04FI8 by alice@bidule.menf.in
       2022-01-05T14:22:29.083348Z
       
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       @davidhanzlik Which is why it's really a wonderful thing to have a lot of control on your OS' packages and be able to make local packages of the absolute latest version if you really need them ! #guix
       
 (DIR) Post #AF8ORUVNheDgM0B00O by davidhanzlik@mastodon.online
       2022-01-05T14:56:58Z
       
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       @alice always good to see this little "issue" affects more than just me :)I too have been letting my systems lag a bit on updates, now that I think about it... It is just to easy to be lazy X)PS always wanted to try guix, there is just never enough time for all the fun things \o/