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Like, "we'll bump up to the next whole number when we've actually done a rewrite big enough to warrant that" just feels more interesting. The chaos of "here's 2.0" "here's 2.1β€” oh, 2.2" "here's 2.3" "but actually now it's real, at 2.3.3" "lol disregard that 2.3.7 is basically what 2.3 should've been" "3.x doesn't exist for your device" "here's 4.0! we've changed a fuckton" was just… cooler.


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in reply to @kda's post:

I mean, we basically have that now, except it's: "here's 35" "wait, no, here's 36. But you probably want to hold out for 37, where we fix that thing you want." "37 isn't actually available for your device, and 38 was broken in a different way, so you probably want 39, but that was a complete rewrite that messed up some other functionality you rely on, so you really want to wait for..."

I mean, it doesn't really matter, because people were still completely screwing up the entire point of semver anyway by doing big breaking changes in minor versions; but it deeply bothers me as someone who is wired in such a way.

But hey, we're now on version 104, and you have absolutely no idea what you can treat as stable and what's going to slap you in the face with a massive breaking change, so 🀷