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by timidger 2107 days ago
Because the version of web browser and the kernel more or less doesn't matter because they care way more about backwards compatibility than the "vast majority of software".

The kernel doesn't break user space. Web browsers' api generally remains backwards compatible (how long did it take to remove flash - and you can still install it if you want!)

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Prior to this change, all go software operated on this assumption (do not break users of the pkg), which doesn't comply with strict semver.

It worked fine.