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Dmytro on Things
Personal blog · dmytro.sh/blogprogrammingsystems
Dmytro on Things is a personal blog at dmytro.sh about programming and systems. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “On breaking changes in transitive dependencies”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post arguing that version numbers should make lockfiles unnecessary. The comment here discusses lockfiles, semantic versioning and dependency updates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- On breaking changes in transitive dependencies2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-05
What Hacker News says?
> No; in fact it's perfectly reasonable, And this is how I once ended spending a Friday evening in a frantic hurry because a dependency decided to drop support for "old" language versions (that is, all except the two newest ones) in its patch-version level update. And by "drop support" I mean "explicitly forbid from building with language versions less than this one". > The entire reason we have version number schem…
Comment linking /blog/on-breaking-changes-in-transitive-dependencies/
on “We shouldn't have needed lockfiles”Submitted On breaking changes in transitive dependencies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On breaking changes in transitive dependencies as a story · 1 points
HN discussion