Stripe has been doing it for god knows how long now and it seems to be working for them. With a robust test suite, I can’t think of too much that can/would go w

Stripe has been doing it for god knows how long now and it seems to be working for them. With a robust test suite, I can’t think of too much that can/would go wrong. Honestly, I wish more software would approach things this way instead of introducing a major api version every 5 years. Just continuously ship the latest thing and translate everything that came before. Hopefully if people are also using “official” client libraries, they will eventually upgrade their dependencies and their API version will also get bumped. If there is a particularly heavy usage client jumping forward 100 versions and using too many of your resources, hopefully your org can dedicate some resources to help them upgrade which theoretically benefits both of you. Now that I think of it Adyen did this to us a few years back. We’ll probably stay in the v5 branch until they politely poke us to upgrade again in another 5 years…