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411111111111111 on July 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Vite 3.0

According to semantic versioning, a major version indicates breaking changes, which is always bad from a users perspective.

Most projects don't really use semver anymore though, which is why this association seems to be going away

lhnz on July 14, 2022 [–]

It doesn't mean that anything will break. You deprecate old ways long before you remove them from your tool so that by the time you do the breaking change only a tiny slither of people are affected by it.

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