bad design

[Raoul Duke]

Almost as if we never learn. At least in the mainstream. Maybe things like protobufs are the least bad that anyone has cone up with.

> Across DLLs, JARs, npm packages, K8S CRDs, the same structural issues persist:

• Shared mutable dependencies

• Incompatible version requirements

• Large, deep transitive graphs

• Runtime resolution instead of compile‑time guarantees

• No semantic version compatibility enforcement

[Mike Austin]

"No semantic version compatibility enforcement"

Very true, there's no verifiable rule that 1.4 to 1.5 doesn't break everything. You can only read the Changelog or look though the diffs themselves, or pray.