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> I don't like change when it unnecessarily breaks things that used to work just fine. This is by definition what change is. It's an improvement, and if change
by chrischen 7y ago
> I don't like change when it unnecessarily breaks things that used to work just fine.
This is by definition what change is. It's an improvement, and if changes didn't break things there'd never be progress and nothing would get changed.
- FireBeyond 7y agoChange is absolutely not, "by definition", an improvement. It can be. And it can be entirely the opposite.
- chrischen 7y agoWhat I meant is that an improvement is always a change. It may not have worked for a specific person but it was intended to address an issue for others. Backwards compatibility does not come for free. At some point people refusing to use new features have to be cut off.
- pjc50 7y agoPerhaps, but they don't have to like it.