taro: "every time i interact with a new API i have less and less sympathy for "backwards compatibility""

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every time i interact with a new API i have less and less sympathy for "backwards compatibility"

March 25, 2026 at 8:38 PM

sure, don't break your shit every month but at a certain point you have to clean slate and fix that shit

jobland has also radicalized me against backwards compatibility, like the whole thing is just this abhorrent accrual of mistake after mistake