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Semantic versioning is brilliant, but it won’t scale

Those who don’t understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
— Henry Spencer

UNIX never experienced the DLL hell, with a brilliant simple trick in library naming convention. This idea was so good, that it later got also formulated more articulately as semantic versioning, and huge ecosystems such as npm are built around that.

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