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> Do you think they have endless time to plan a migration with minute detail for every possible usecase? My point is that for these small changes from 2 to 3,
by Blikkentrekker 6y ago
> Do you think they have endless time to plan a migration with minute detail for every possible usecase?
My point is that for these small changes from 2 to 3, there should have never been a migration to begin with.
It's not an accusation of lack of effort; it's an accusation of ignorance on their part.
The migration has not only cost everyone else time and money; it has cost them time and money that was better spent elsewhere.
It has been a net detriment to all parties, including them, because they severely underestimated the cost of rewriting software and dealing with the regressions it might lead to.
I will damned well call a man foolish, for pointing a gun at his foot and getting shot in it, because he underestimated how easily the trigger would go off by accident, instead of being thankfully that he was willing to put in the effort to aim it at his foot.
- paulryanrogers 6y agoYou may be right or blinded by hindsight. Personally I'd rather see more breaking changes in languages like PHP that have a lot of baggage holding them back.