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Yes. From my perspective one benefit of 0 major version in 1-person OSS projects is it gives a clear signal that "yes this code is available for you, but no I'm not an enterprise support solution, I'll do what seems useful/relevant to me when I have time and when it feels relevant".

That doesn't mean intentionally breaking backwards compatibility but also this isn't my paid day job so I might do it and I'm not going to spend my evenings compiling release notes / migration guides for free.

In this way it's an effective anti-big-corp shield since a lot of enterprises have dumb rules about using beta/alpha versions. I think it's a strong signal where people can't just use a beta or pre-release version of some code that they're a) not auditing their dependencies and b) probably work somewhere that has the money to pay for that level of service but just want you to do it for free.




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