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		Dylan16807 on Aug 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2 Old code becoming a compiler error sound like a backwards compatibility issue to me.

kodra on Aug 14, 2023 [–]

I guess it's a terminology thing. As someone from a C# background, not all keywords are reserved words. Only new reserved words break backward compatibility.

C# has added some keywords (record, and, or) without breaking backwards compatibility.

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