What Kenton Varda thinks about developer tools
Engineer at Cloudflare who designed Workers, Durable Objects and Cap’n Proto; earlier the primary author of Protocol Buffers v2 at Google, and co-founder of Sandstorm.io.
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2 dated positions, 2021, in their own words. Our reading of what Kenton Varda has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsBut what if the test only worked because of a bug in the underlying platform that caused it to do the right thing by accident? Well, that's the platform's fault. The developer did everything they could: they tested their code thoroughly, and it worked.
↗Backwards-compatibility in Cloudflare Workersblog.cloudflare.com
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Their wordsSecond, part of the promise of serverless is that developers shouldn't have to worry about updating their stack. If we start letting people pin old versions, then we have to start telling people how long they are allowed to do so, alerting people about security updates, giving people documentation that differentiates versions, and so on. We don't want developers to have to think about any of that.
↗Backwards-compatibility in Cloudflare Workersblog.cloudflare.com