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Hyrum's Law 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
by dmitrygr 1y ago
Hyrum's Law
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.
- Avamander 1y agoOne more reason to actually reimplement coreutils. Figuring out these undocumented promises also makes it easier to ensure correctness in general.
- steveklabnik 1y agoYou’re downvoted but you’re correct. The uutils folks have been submitting bugs and test cases upstream. It actively helps both projects.
- lioeters 1y agoEvery change breaks someone's workflow. https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/