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    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    How would you differentiate between versions with major api breaks?

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Shhh, they don't know what that means, let them live in bliss

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Lol. Developers just need to know what date the api changed. Viola.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Gotta know, are you serious or joking here? Follow up question: are you a developer and have you ever worked on a medium+ sized project? The amount of dependencies you end up with is astounding, you can't just "know" when all those APIs changed, that would be a full time job just to stay on top of. And that's not even taking into consideration transitive dependencies. If a library doesn't use semantic versioning, 99% of the time it's correct to avoid it just to save yourself the headache.