For me, semver isn't perfect but its good enough. At least for my experience in the Rust community: - You can trust people to not break things. For the unsusu

For me, semver isn't perfect but its good enough. At least for my experience in the Rust community: - You can trust people to not break things. For the unsusual cases, people are quick to respond by yanking. - Once people hit 1.0, they rate limit their breaking changes to be less disruptive The nice thing about small libraries is each incompatible upgrade is a smaller step which makes it easier to take on. I've seen large code bases struggle to adjust to large breaking changes and hold off until it becomes business critical.