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"Developers will sometimes break APIs. How is this a Python-specific issue? These things are literally happening everywhere."

That's actually not happening literally everywhere, that's part of the development culture surrounding (not only) Python. In the C world, maintaining a stable API is the norm, not the exception.

Yes, PHP and Node.JS and Ruby all are just as bad or worse than Python. That's the whole point!

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> "Yes, PHP and Node.JS and Ruby all are just as bad or worse than Python. That's the whole point!"

The original comment I was replying to was taking a stab at Python in particular. All I'm saying, is that in the open-source community, in that specific regard, Python doesn't stand out. Many developers care about backwards compatibility, many (dare I say, most) others simply don't.

I've had a large Java repo that broke recently, after we've updated some of our Maven deps to slightly newer versions (that was a very large, well known and used package). So those things happen in the "Java world" too.

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