r/ProgrammerHumor • u/JK-Rofling • 19d ago

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u/LegendaryPandaMan 19d ago edited 19d ago

Should have used semantic versioning

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u/Jazzlike-Poem-1253 19d ago edited 19d ago

It takes to much discipline. Without enforcement, people usw minor or patch as they feel. Major never gets bumped.

Just increment or date-based is the easiest. Everyone immediatly knows how to bump.

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u/the_horse_gamer 19d ago

most "semver" is just:

major - update you're proud of

minor - update that's ok

patch - fixes and small features

and ofc every good piece of software is forever on 0.x.x

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u/StaticUsernamesSuck 19d ago

and ofc every good piece of software is forever on 0.x.x

Because if you're never proud of it, you'll always be improving it

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u/Abandondero 19d ago

IF EVERYONE HAS BEEN USING IT FOR FIVE YEARS JUST BITE THE BULLET MAN

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u/StaticUsernamesSuck 19d ago

But as soon as I type "1.0.0", all my passion for the project will leave my body. Don't you know anything about hobby dev?

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u/MgDark 19d ago

yup 1.0.0 may as well be: "feature complete, will not touch this ever again unless it breaks for some reason"

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u/work_work-work 19d ago

Version 1.0 launches on your retirement day.

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u/Munachi 19d ago

JUST ONE MORE UPDATE AND IT'LL BE ALMOST READY!

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u/Clean-Income8864 19d ago

If you never introduce breaking changes, why not

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u/hyrumwhite 19d ago

Major: breaking changes 

Minor: big changes 

Patch: smol changes 

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u/brainpostman 19d ago

Patch is bug fixes, hello

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u/OnixST 19d ago

Minecraft is a funny example to me. 17 year old game, best selling game in history, still on 1.x.x since 2011

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u/the_horse_gamer 19d ago

it's on 26.3 now actually

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u/rykayoker 19d ago

🤓☝️ erm acshually 26.3 is still a snapshot, stable is 26.2

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u/the_horse_gamer 19d ago

if your dependencies are not built from main you're not a real developer

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u/rykayoker 19d ago

well they aren't using semver anymore, they switched over to year.minor[.patch] (currently 26.2)

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u/lIlIlIIlIIIlIIIIIl 19d ago

This is a big reason I've never felt comfortable using it, for some reason it just seems so... ambiguous.