> "The trade-off for getting millions of dollars of engineering investment in the TypeScript project is that marketing gets to control version numbers to a certain extent.
> "It's not really an unalloyed good anyway. If we followed semver rules exactly, literally every single release would be a major version bump. Any time we produced the wrong type or emitted the wrong code or failed to issue a correct error, that's a breaking change, and we fix dozens of bugs like that in every release. The middle digit just isn't useful for TypeScript in a strict semver interpretation."
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 15.6 ms ] thread> "The trade-off for getting millions of dollars of engineering investment in the TypeScript project is that marketing gets to control version numbers to a certain extent.
> "It's not really an unalloyed good anyway. If we followed semver rules exactly, literally every single release would be a major version bump. Any time we produced the wrong type or emitted the wrong code or failed to issue a correct error, that's a breaking change, and we fix dozens of bugs like that in every release. The middle digit just isn't useful for TypeScript in a strict semver interpretation."