> I love when an entity in a position of power is willing to break things in the name of advancement.

It's less fun when you have things that need to keep working break because someone felt like renaming a parameter, or that a part of the standard library looks "untidy"

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happytoexplain 4 days ago | parent [-]

I agree! And yet I lovingly sacrifice my man-hours to it when I decide to bump that major version number in my dependency manifest.

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account42 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

The key words here being "I decide". I'm going to express a lot less love when someone else decides.

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procaryote 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Or minor versions of python...

Honestly python is probably one of the worst offender in this as they combine happily making breaking changes for low value rearranging of deck chairs with a dynamic language where you might only find out in runtime.

The fact that they've also decided to use an unconventional intepretation of minor version shows how little they care.

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chuckadams 3 days ago | parent [-]

The term "semantic versioning" didn't even exist until 2010, which is well after the birth of Python. Sure, it semi-formalized a convention from long before, but it was hardly universal.

	▲	account42 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The ideals behind semantic versioning existed long before the marketing term.
	▲	procaryote 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They of course get to break their thing however much they like, but it sure sucks