Rich Hickey's versioning thoughts

[jbenet]

Fantastic talk from the deeply thoughtful, idealistic and pragmatic, Rich Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk

It captures much of what i dislike about semver. The thoughts arent completed though. Coupled with hashes, static analysis, and freedom from old paradigms (in their case, mvn, jars, namespaces, etc).

It may be that Go's typing and packaging (however stunted...) is enough for something better along these lines. It may be that a new dep field for javascript could be enough. It may be that we need new languages whose import and code loading is structured around these truly semantic versions.

[jbenet]

@diasdavid we should watch this talk together.

[daviddias]

@haadcode this is the talk @jbenet and I were mentioning :)

[haadcode]

Thanks! Will watch it asap :)