Single-compiler vs. multi-compilers (or. implementation-defined vs. standardized) languages

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A tick-tock release cycle for GHC

Since I can’t be bothered with setting up yet another “git-house” account - the suggestion by @santiweight: Another point to make is that the naming scheme is here is imo quite poor. Intuitively, 9.0 would appear to be a long-term support release since it is [a] major version bump. […] is quite reasonable: ghc-v.0.n (for largest n) - the most recent maintenance-only version which provides relative stability; ghc-v.k.m (for k > 0) - for adding and testing language and other extensions; ghc-…