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Just because everybody does something the wrong way doesn’t somehow make it magically correct. Hyrum's Law says the opposite: https://www.hyrumslaw.com/ https
by gjvc 3y ago
Just because everybody does something the wrong way doesn’t somehow make it magically correct.
Hyrum's Law says the opposite:
https://www.hyrumslaw.com/ https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
"With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody."
Named after some guy called Hyrum who worked / works at Google.
- verteu 3y agoAgreed. It's also the "the first rule of kernel maintenance," according to Linus: https://linuxreviews.org/WE_DO_NOT_BREAK_USERSPACE https://linuxreviews.org/WE_DO_NOT_BREAK_USERSPACE