The greatest form of art is the discussion on whether something is art or not.
When you see a broken toilet sitting in an art gallery selling for 5 million dollars and someone thinks "I could do that, this is stupid", they have completely missed the point. The art is not the broken toilet, the art is selling it for 5 million dollars - which is something the complaining person definitly cannot do. That's the art.
>But all it has done is enable developers to make these breaking changes in the first place, under the protective umbrella of “I’ll just bump the major version.”
Which is just fine when it is a non funded free software project. No one owes you anything in that case, let alone backwards compatibility.
The problem is the normalization of breaking changes that has happened as a result. Sure, you don’t owe anybody backwards compatibility. You don’t owe anybody anything. But then whole ecosystems crop up built out of constituent parts which each don’t owe anyone backwards compatibility, and the result is that writing software in these ecosystems is a toxic wasteland.
It’s not an automatic outcome of free software either. The Linux kernel is famous for “we don’t break user space, ever”, and some of Linus’s most heated rants have come from this topic. All of GNU is made of software that doesn’t break backwards compatibility. libc, all the core utilities, etc, all have maintained deprecated features basically forever. It’s all free software.
Agree with the toxic ecosystem wasteland, but I'm not sure semver is to blame. Linux has been good, but most projects were pretty wild before SemVer came to be. At least with SemVer you stand a chance knowing what you have.
It problem is more deep rooted with both "move fast and break everything" and non/under funded project. Everyone is depending on each others hobby project. The js/npm culture is especially bad.
Yes, SemVer makes it easy, but versioning has to be dead easy.
Try sending this graph to an actual human analyst. His response, after you paying him will probably be to cut off any further business relationship with you.
Seeing as shrew-like animals are the oldest species of mammals and date all the way back to Triassic era, if you killed off one rodent species another would necessarily take its place. They also managed to survive several great extinctions in the last 250 million years and gave rise to our own species. Given the importance of them in the food chain, the world would most certainly be worse off without them.
Man I had a rat infestation in my house recently, and after that I think I could get behind a rat genocide.
Those fuckers got into my pantry and started knocking jars over, they poop on everything, they make a lot of noise, they get into the air conditioning ducts, they will chew through pretty much anything that isn't thick metal or plastic, and they reproduce like crazy.
We were able to get it under control and we hired someone to find and seal up the spots they were getting in from, but I gotta say that it wasn't an experience I want to go through ever again.
The only "good" thing about rats vs mice is that they're decidedly not subtle, so it's a lot more clear that you actually got them all. Mice are smaller and sneakier and when we had an issue with them a few years ago it took quite awhile to know before we knew they were gone.
Perhaps a unicorn doesn't die as soon as you first use a global var. But it has two .45s pointed to it cranium left and right. And at any random moment Danni DeVito will start blasting.
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