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1. eddythompson80 ◴[] No.46221212[source]
Deprecations in all forms are always a shitshow. There isn’t a particular pattern that “just works”. Anybody that tells you about one, best case scenario, it just worked for them because of their consumer/user not because of the method itself.

The best I have seen is a heavy handed in-editor strike through with warnings (assuming the code is actively being worked on) and even then it’s at best a 50/50 thing.

50% of the developers would feel that using an API with a strike through in the editor is wrong. And the other 50% will just say “I dunno, I copied it from there. What’s wrong with it??”