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Depends on what you mean with "BROKEN". Breaking changes actually break other people's code, tutorials, documentation, tooling and developer knowledge often for
by dgb23 5y ago
Depends on what you mean with "BROKEN". Breaking changes actually break other people's code, tutorials, documentation, tooling and developer knowledge often for very questionable gains.
There are many projects that are relied on by thousands, but they keep pushing breaking changes on a regular basis without providing tangible improvements. This is especially true for tooling, frameworks etc. for web development.
- dTal 5y agoHypothesis: this is especially true for corporate-sponsored open source where the devs also sell consulting services - i.e. "freemium" - because their incentive structure does not encourage making things easy to use without their services.