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That's not really the point. There's a gulf of difference between "we patched a CVE and now spacebar-heating is broken" and "we knowingly and deliberately changed the semantics of a query operator in a minor/patch release in a 7.x library in wide production with 3,900 stars on gitub."

Semver doesn't mean "guarantee no breaking changes in minor" - that's impossible - and people love to point this out for whatever reason. It totally misses the point. I think most engineers have a decent intuition most of the time about whether a change is breaking or not.




The amount of time I had to tell engineers across multiple companies that one cannot just blindly bundle update all of the minor/patch versions of our rubygems without properly testing everything begs to differ.

"It's semver bro"

No.




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