alt Hacker NewsA breaking change in a dependency doesn’t cause a full-stop to a service at all. The old version continues to work. Making subtly harmful changes so that new broken versions sneak in is just a bad idea and totally unnecessary.
A breaking change in a dependency doesn’t cause a full-stop to a service at all. The old version continues to work. Making subtly harmful changes so that new broken versions sneak in is just a bad idea and totally unnecessary.
> A breaking change in a dependency doesn’t cause a full-stop to a service at all
From the article:
"We still received feedback from users that this removal was unexpected and was breaking dependent libraries."
I think we may be assuming different floors on service maintainer competency; with so many users pulling in dependencies across an arbitrarily-wide version window with no testing, such changes do break services.