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Hyrum's Law

Hyrum Wright · read the source

  • “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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    Kept as the reason that changing anything public is harder than it looks. The contract is what you meant. The interface is everything anyone can see, including the bugs and the timing.