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   Axel Rauschmayer (rauschma@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 20:08:07 JST Axel Rauschmayer

   • Josh Goldberg 💖

   As explained by @JoshuaKGoldberg, TypeScript doesn’t use semantic versioning (semver): “A new major version of TypeScript (e.g. 5.0.0) is released if the minor version would have exceeded 9 (e.g. 4.10.0).”
   https://www.learningtypescript.com/articles/why-typescript-doesnt-follow-strict-semantic-versioning

   It’s interesting that people don’t seem to be aware of that and are hesitant about upgrading to a different major version: https://majors.nullvoxpopuli.com/q?minors=on&packages=typescript

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     Josh Goldberg 💖 (joshuakgoldberg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 23:45:32 JST Josh Goldberg 💖

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     @u24 @rauschma it's explained in the article 😛 but tldr: frequent majors would lose the meaning of semver & mislead devs; infrequent majors would bottle up changes and result in less user testing; the external API surface actually does roughly follow semver