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Hyrum’s Law in Golang

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316 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 21 Nov 24 07:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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raverbashing ◴[21 Nov 24 08:39 UTC] No.42202306[source]▶
It's like an inverted game of cat and mice

1 - Lang/OS/Lib developer puts out a quirky or buggy API (or even just an ok API)

2 - Developers rely on a quirky, weird or unexpected side effect because it's easier/more obvious or it just works this way due to a bug

3 - Original developer can't fix it because it would break compatibility

4 GOTO 1

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1. withinboredom ◴[21 Nov 24 08:45 UTC] No.42202332[source]▶
Immediately reminded of this: https://externals.io/message/126011 that is an ongoing conversation in php-internals about removing a quirky/buggy behavior from PHP that, at the very end (at least of this comment's time) someone jumps in and says "yep, its useful, please keep it"