- we’ve stopped using ^ and ~ because of the unpredictability of third party libraries and their authors’ potential for causing our own apps to break. We also

- we’ve stopped using ^ and ~ because of the unpredictability of third party libraries and their authors’ potential for causing our own apps to break. We also find ourselves forking and managing our own versions of smaller/less popular libraries. In some cases, we’ve chosen to reimplement a library.