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That’s precisely my point. With Rails and Ruby breaking APIs on every new minor release, the only realistic expectation is that every minor release of anything may have breaking changes, because that’s the example being set. And it just makes the experience of updating any Rails project even worse than it already is.

The language and framework, by your own statement, are pushing breaking changes at a yearly rate. That’s a horrible developer experience.




No the expectation is that users of projects stop assuming SemVer is followed by every projects.

> pushing breaking changes at a yearly rate. That’s a horrible developer experience.

That's your opinion. I much prefer these bite sized yearly changes to much bigger changes over longer periods. e.g. Ruby with this strategy never had the big divide Python 3 had with its much larger change.


You may not believe this, but there are other ways of versioning software beyond breaking things every year and doing whatever Python 3 did.


> You may not believe this

You may not need to be confrontational...

> there are other ways of versioning software

I'm sure there is. But some features and other improvements sometimes require to deprecate and remove some older features.

Each project will chose its own tradeoff between bringing the improvement faster vs keeping compatibility longer.




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