[dustingetz]

Semver versioning is expensive, it doesn't really make sense for unfunded work. "1.0" is fake security, if you want long term support you will need to acknowledge that out of band anyway. It's unfortunate that many package managers push projects into semver, because then when some dependency inevitably breaks semver semantics, far away things break - spooky action at a distance. But dependency hell is real too. Versioning is hard.

I will be using "0.0.1-alpha.XXX" for projects with immature api, and "0.X.Y-alpha.ZZZ" for projects with mature interface but active development which may break the api, because i think this is compatible with semver package managers, right? I'm okay with people having to run -alpha in production for my small projects, i'm giving you the work for free, read the source code or don't use it.