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I hate that so many projects don't ever move to version 1. It makes it hard to choose to use them for anything serious because 0.x implies that the developers d

by ziml77 5y ago

I hate that so many projects don't ever move to version 1. It makes it hard to choose to use them for anything serious because 0.x implies that the developers don't think the project is ready yet. I think the reason projects get stuck at 0.x is because of interface stability expectations. When you're at version 0, you have the freedom to realize you made a bad choice and break interfaces to improve it in the long run. It's nice to know you have that freedom and that you're not committing to maintaining something in a state that is painful to work with.

another-dave 5y ago
Semver also allows you to make breaking changes at anytime with the bump from one major version to the next — e.g. if you look at something like RxJava they use semver well in this way & don't shy away from breaking changes to deprecate and tidy the API. If anything I think perpetual v0 dilutes the concept as gets people used to projects being stable at v0 rather than considering them alpha