> What if 0.9.2 was really 1.0 but no one noticed? I understand that these numbers are arbitrary and there is nothing about a v1.0 release number that suddenly magically bestows anything on the actual software itself.
My question was in part prompted by comments I saw on /. in earlier articles about Nim. There were quite a few people who said things like (obviously I'm paraphrasing) "After all these years it's still not at v1? It's surely a dead project" or "Well I think I'll wait till they get to V1 before I look into it". Whilst the overall aim should be to get that issue count reduced regardless of the version number, if we can confidently put out a V1 then psychologically people might be more inclined to try out Nim.
