Zod v4 Beta

> Zod v3.0 was released in May 2021...

v3 didn't last four years. Can we expect much different from v4?

If you're migrating your zod 3 code, I'd migrate to something more stable and long-lived than v4 is likely to be -- unless you want to be going through it all again in a few years (and yet again a few years after that, etc).

I don't blame the maintainers (I assume they don't have a fat support and maintenance contract)

But developers need to go in with their eyes open when it comes to adopting these throw-away libraries and frameworks.

This is a little disingenuous. As far as I know, v3 isn't going anywhere. There's what... weeks until May 2025, which would be four years?

4 years in JavaScript land is actually pretty long. Zod has a pretty good maintenance record. I don't see how a statement like yours can be made without snark. Calling it a "throw-away" library is pretty brash.

This looks like a good update that sticks to the formula.

> 4 years in JavaScript land is actually pretty long

For non-JS developers to get a sense of how long this is, companies have probably migrated from React to Vue to Svelte to Solid and then back to React in this time.

Did they get any useful work done in that time, or just learn new frameworks? That sounds like a form of hell.