Semver projects could avoid the bitching about rapid version number churn by just adding a fourth number on the left. Moving from "v1.8.0.0" to "v1.8.1.0" or ev

Semver projects could avoid the bitching about rapid version number churn by just adding a fourth number on the left. Moving from "v1.8.0.0" to "v1.8.1.0" or even "v1.9.0.0" and people wouldn't freak out so much. It means the exact same thing, but apparently all these folks didn't get the message that Semver is different from the arbitrary version numbers of the past. Or better yet, just hide the version number completely. I'm sitting here, using Google Chrome in version... uhh, what is it? 59.0.3071.86! "OH MY GOD! How can there be 59 versions of Chrome?!" There aren't--or rather, there are a lot more versions of all other software than you are used to thinking--they just don't use your version numbering scheme and rightly hid it away so you wouldn't freak out about it. Firefox does the same thing now.