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The software industry misunderstands backwards compatibility by focusing on narrow legalistic definitions rather than outcomes.

Drawn from what David Crawshaw said

Subjectdesign
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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

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  1. David Crawshaw Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale
    We as a profession misunderstand and misuse the concept of backwards compatibility, both upstream and downstream, by focusing on narrow legalistic definitions instead of outcomes.

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    ↗log4j: between a rock and a hard placecrawshaw.io

    11 Dec 2021

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