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But the ecosystem integration makes it impossible. At that point it’s less friction to start a new project and make it behave differently.
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Some projects reach a point where in order to drastically improve, the API needs to be changed so much that it’s basically a new project.
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Reminds me of the Ship of Theseus. If you replace every part of a boat, is it the same boat you started with? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus …
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Also known as versioning.
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For incremental changes, sure.
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Have you seen Rich Hickey’s “Speculation” talk? He suggests that all breaking changes should be a new name, not new release of existing
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Angular Momentum.
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I call this Monday
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Many APIs exist as the first form of whatever occured to the dev at the time. It's pretty inevitable that improvements will force change.
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