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Hyrum's Law: With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract; all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.
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Hyrum's Law: With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract; all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.
This means:
- Users depend on bugs
- Implementation details suddenly are the spec
- Breaking changes are always breaking for someone
- Documentation is a suggestion of intent rather than realityAlso, relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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