Post #2279992
2026-04-15 15:07 UTC
@etchedpixels@mastodon.social but changing APIs in a breaking way also introduces more work on the consumer side. I don't know what's worse in overall maintenance cost, but e.g. if the Linux kernel would go "we break things and you gotta deal with the outfall" I'm sure we'd have to need more developers time to deal with this in total, even if it would be "cheaper" on the kernel side.
And I'm not saying "maintain the old path forever", if you remove it in 6 months, so be it.
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@etchedpixels@mastodon.social 2026-04-15 15:14
@karolherbst@chaos.social kernel to user is a great example of one exported API and many users so definitely a place not to break stuff. It's also very loosely coupled so unlike libraries never will change lockstep